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Len Deighton's encyclopcdic knowledge of the Second World War was demonstrated in ills bcst-scller, Fighter, wliicii revised many pre-viously-lield opinions about 1940 and the Battle of Britain. His earlier book, Bomber, altiiough fiction, also provided a detailed study of day to day life in Nazi Germany.
Combining careful historical research with a narrative genius that has made his novels world-wide successes, he has now written his most important and original book to date. And it is a spy story, set in 1941, with the Nazis at the high-tide of victory.
Almost nine months have passed since all British forces surrendered and the German occupation has settled into an ordered routine. In a blitzed London, with its oil-shops and kitchen maids, its trams and horse-drawn carts, a young English police detective finds himself involved in an espionage battle for which he is ill-prepared. The stakes are high . . not even the Black Death would compare with the consequences,'... Tovább

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Len Deighton's encyclopcdic knowledge of the Second World War was demonstrated in ills bcst-scller, Fighter, wliicii revised many pre-viously-lield opinions about 1940 and the Battle of Britain. His earlier book, Bomber, altiiough fiction, also provided a detailed study of day to day life in Nazi Germany.
Combining careful historical research with a narrative genius that has made his novels world-wide successes, he has now written his most important and original book to date. And it is a spy story, set in 1941, with the Nazis at the high-tide of victory.
Almost nine months have passed since all British forces surrendered and the German occupation has settled into an ordered routine. In a blitzed London, with its oil-shops and kitchen maids, its trams and horse-drawn carts, a young English police detective finds himself involved in an espionage battle for which he is ill-prepared. The stakes are high . . not even the Black Death would compare with the consequences,' remarks the Byzantine SS Standartenfiihrer. 'At least, that's what my experts tell me.'
As always with a Len Deighton story, it is the cast of characters that haunts the mind: the wealthy collaborators, the elderly SS General who kills by kindness, the American divorcee writing for still-neutral newspapers back home, and the elegant English secret service chief who, 'when he says he'll risk anything, means he'll risk you'.
You will find this spy story totally different from any other spy story you have ever read. Only Len Deighton could have written it.
LEN DEIGHTON
Fiction
TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE SPY
'In Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy the master is at his peak. It is his special gift to show how ordinary people get drawn into the whirlpool of espionage and learn, with what reluctant heroism, to keep swimming.' Michael Maxwell Scott, Daily Telegraph
BOMBER
'A massive and superbly mobilised tragedy of the machines which men create to destroy themselves. Masterly and by far Deighton's best.' Douglas Hurd, Spectator
'To maintain restraint and accuracy in the face of horror is in itself a major achievement of style. No historian could reconstruct as Mr Deighton does the experience of the dead as well as the survivors, or link the planes with their targets with such immediacy.' Angus Calder, Sunday Times
Non-jiction
FIGHTER THE TRUE STORY OF THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
'Must surely rank as the most honest attempt yet to tell how the Battle of Britain really was.' Andrew Wilson, Observer
'Len Deighton writes here as a well-informed outsider in favour of no group or nation, and he has uncovered truths that strike shrewdly and uncomfortably home.' Julian Symons, Sunday Times
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Jacket design by Raymond Hawkey
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