Len Deighton". The Guardian. 22 July 2008. Archived from the original on 10 August 2022 . Retrieved 30 October 2023. Game, Set and Match (1988)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016 . Retrieved 30 March 2020. One exception is this book, by Len Deighton, one of the major thriller writers of the second half of the 1900s. This is not a thriller, but, as he describes it, a story about how the war machine chews up people and throws out bodies. Paraphrased. This could very well be the best book I have ever had the pleasure of reading. I discovered Len Deighton in the late 80's, while stationed in Germany and read everything I could find of his from the post library. I devoured all of his books but, 'Bomber' eluded me until a few months ago. To be honest, I am glad it took me so long to finally read this book because I don't think the younger version of "me" was ready to fully comprehend the brutal honesty of war that is depicted by Deighton in 'Bomber'.

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Deighton describes people in love, people hating each other, people that are experts at what they do and people that are novices or just incompetent. The common factor is that they all clash in the skies over western Europe, or on the ground of western Europe if you are on the wrong side of explosives. A "doss-house" ("flophouse" in American English) is a cheap lodging hostel where the homeless or those on very low incomes can stay overnight. [29] [30]

In Len Deighton’s nightmare novel, the Nazis have won in 1941, before the Americans can decide to quit dithering and come help their brothers and sisters across the sea. It is a chilling thought because it came oh so close to being true. Meanwhile, Resistance to the German occupation is growing. As one woman remarks to Archer, “‘In the towns it’s just bombs and murdering German soldiers. In the country districts there are bigger groups, who ambush German motorized patrols . . . ‘” But Resistance is underway at a much higher level: senior British officials in the puppet government are plotting to release the King from the Tower and spirit him off to the United States, where he can lead an eventual effort to bring the Nazis to account. Archer discovers that his seemingly straightforward murder investigation is closely related to this plot—and he becomes deeply involved in the dangerous action that follows.