Memorial Day Weekend -- Labor Day 2018 The Books: Fiction Eric Ambler: The Mask of Dimitrios (new / print) **** Phyllis Bottome: The Lifeline (new / ebook-to-printed-PDF) ***1/2 John le Carré: The Tailor of Panama (revisited on audio, narrated by the author) ****1/2 Agatha Christie: N or M? (revis...
‘Ever wonder why the Berlin Wall follows that absurd line?’ said Frank. ‘It was decided at a conference at Lancaster House in London while the war was still being fought. They were dividing the city up the way the Allied armies would share it once they got here. Clerks were sent out hotfoot for a ma...
Originally published in 1983, I distinctly remember seeing this book - along with the other two in the series - hanging around my parents bookshelves during the mid-1980's. I headed off to college in 1984 and never permanently lived with them again, just spending summers and vacations in their home....
I am a big fan of Len Deighton, and this one is a departure from his typical stuff. It is an alternate history, one in which the Germans have won WW2 and now rule over Britain. The main character is a police detective on a case with dangerous political overtones. I liked other novels where German...
I love just about everything that Len Deighton wrote, but this was one of his best. It follows a German family for a fifty year period, starting at the turn of the 20th century. The two main characters are brothers who follow very different paths. Excellent storytelling from a master of the spy g...
Brilliant. This is definitely an author I will start following. The story, a murder mystery set in a German-occupied London during an alternate WWII, follows "Archer of the Yard" as he follows the trail through the German army, the SS, the British resistance and the dawn of the atomic age.
This has been praised as a literary thriller that helped shape the espionage thriller genre, and I've seen Deighton compared to Dickens, contrasted favorably to Ian Fleming. Frankly, this struck me as rather juvenile. Unlike Fleming, Deighton doesn't have a background in intelligence, and the book ...
contrary to the GR listing, published 1977. possibly to some degree a 3 star is warranted, a notch off Beevor or Atkinson in war writing (although the latter two are writing several decades later), certainly better than Deighton's fiction. very detailed, complex account of battle of britain that cle...
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