This is a true story of Winnipeg-born, Sir William Stephenson, "A MAN CALLED INTREPID", his career, and the secret wartime espionage organization he built up in the heart of New York City at The Rockefeller Center. Stephenson was the man appointed by Winston Churchill to be the Allies' go-between; the man who established the British Security Coordination secret service agency in New York City; the man who was the architect of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and served as consultant to the CIA until his death; the man who was the template for Ian Fleming's James Bond.

In The True Intrepid, Bill Macdonald documents Sir William Stephenson's early life, which has remained a web of fiction in previous books. He unravels layers of misinformation and secret documents (CIA and MI-5) to reveal the astonishing details of the life of the man who said, "Nothing deceives like a document."

The True Intrepid debunks many of the books that have been written about Sir William Stephenson and re-examines history, telling the story of the Unknown Agents and the propaganda and espionage network that Sir William Stephenson established.