Publisher's Synopsis
They trusted him with the future of the free world yet he didn't even exist.
As Nazi forces tightened their grip on Europe, Allied commanders prepared for the most ambitious invasion in military history: D-Day. But brute force alone wouldn't win the war. Victory would depend on one man's talent for fiction.
His name was Juan Pujol García or so the Germans believed.
To the Nazis, he was Alaric, their most valuable spy in Britain. To the British, he was Garbo, the linchpin of a vast deception that would confuse, stall, and mislead Hitler at a crucial turning point. But in truth, he was a former poultry farmer from Spain who had never seen the battlefield and who built an entire network of 27 imaginary agents from scratch.
He fooled both sides. He won awards from both enemies. But the greatest cost wasn't paid on the front lines.
From the fog-drenched hills of Scotland to a web of dummy tanks, fake radio transmissions, and ghost armies, A Bodyguard of Lies pulls readers into the secret war of shadows that made D-Day possible. With the eyes of the world on Normandy, Hitler hesitated and thousands of Allied lives were spared.
But behind the headlines and medals was a hidden personal price: a fractured family, a vanishing act, and a wife who nearly brought the entire operation crashing down.
Based on real intelligence files, declassified documents, and newly uncovered interviews, this gripping true story blends espionage, betrayal, psychological warfare, and sacrifice into a single unforgettable account of how imagination outwitted tyranny.
This is not just history. It's the blueprint for how lies when told at the right time can save a continent.
