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Len Deighton - one of the masters of twentieth-century espionage fiction -- combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber, the classic World War II novel that relates, in devastating detail, the twenty-four-hour story of an allied bombing raid. Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert is exhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperienced new team. Victor von Löouml;wenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAF bombers in his Junkers Ju 88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. And Hansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambert and his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It's a night that many will never forget. Bomber is a masterful, gripping, minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of protag-onists on all sides and astonishingly precise in its depictions of planes, weapons, and behind-the-scenes war strategy, this is Len Deighton at his best. An unforgettable portrait of war, both in the air and on the ground.

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"""Deighton, Greene and John le Carré comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale.""--Seattle Times""A massively different novel... the effect is - quite literally - devastating."" --Sunday Times ""Few authors writing in the rigorous and finite genre of spy fiction have mastered the craft as well as Deighton."" --Chicago Tribune""Deighton is so far in the front of other writers in the field that they are not even in sight."" --Sunday Times""Lively, exciting, ingenious."" --Observer ""For sheer readability, he has no peer."" --Evening Standard""What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail ... and sure sense of place."" --Washington Post ""I love him! The Berlin Game trilogy made lockdown possible."" --Olivia Laing"

"""Deighton, Greene and John le Carr� comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale.""--Seattle Times""A massively different novel... the effect is - quite literally - devastating."" --Sunday Times ""Few authors writing in the rigorous and finite genre of spy fiction have mastered the craft as well as Deighton."" --Chicago Tribune""Deighton is so far in the front of other writers in the field that they are not even in sight."" --Sunday Times""Lively, exciting, ingenious."" --Observer ""For sheer readability, he has no peer."" --Evening Standard""What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail ... and sure sense of place."" --Washington Post ""I love him! The Berlin Game trilogy made lockdown possible."" --Olivia Laing ""Deighton, Greene and John le Carr�eacute; comprise the reigning triumvirate of fictional spymasters beside whom all others pale.""-Seattle Times""A massively different novel... the effect is - quite literally - devastating."" --Sunday Times ""Few authors writing in the rigorous and finite genre of spy fiction have mastered the craft as well as Deighton."" --Chicago Tribune""Deighton is so far in the front of other writers in the field that they are not even in sight."" --Sunday Times""Lively, exciting, ingenious."" --Observer ""For sheer readability, he has no peer."" --Evening Standard""What raises Deighton's genre to art is not only his absorbing characters but his metaphoric grace, droll wit, command of technical detail ... and sure sense of place."" --Washington Post ""I love him! The Berlin Game trilogy made lockdown possible."" --Olivia Laing"

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LEN DEIGHTON is considered one of the most important British espionage writers. He has written more than thirty books that range from historical fiction, dystopian alternative fiction, and brilliant nonfiction on the Second World War.

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