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By: Len Deighton
Narrated by: James Lailey
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It is 1941, and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed and the king imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit and betrayal.

©1978 Len Deighton (P)2021 Penguin Audio Espionage Science Fiction World War II Fiction Winston Churchill War Mystery

Critic Reviews

"Deighton's best book...an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Len Deighton is the Flaubert of contemporary thriller writers...this is much the way things would have turned out if the Germans had won." (The Times Literary Supplement)

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Exciting premise, boringly executed

I’m a fan of historical fiction, and the idea of WW2 going in a different direction was very interesting to me.

Unfortunately, I returned the audiobook after giving it a decent go. Over a third of the way through, I was still being introduced to too many characters that I didn’t care about, and excitement so scarce that I felt like waving a white flag myself.

The focus was on the bureaucracy of government departments rather than the incredibly interesting concept of what life would have been like culturally, in the scenario where Britain surrendered.

How did it happen? What did the resistance look like? How were normal families affected especially after a devastating defeat? Instead it reads as a pile of red tape that makes my job in finance seem a lot more interesting than this story.

Perhaps it gets better, but the build up was so painfully slow that it didn’t seem worth the time.

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