Word: deightons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deighton Knopf; 339 pages...
...Sound and the Führer are overfamiliar: an old Nazi project threatens to shake the contemporary world to its foundations. But Spy Master Len Deighton enlivens the pseudo history with some new turns, among them a face-to-face meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Time: 1940. Place: a Belgian bunker. Topic: the surrender of Britain. The Prime Minister, of course, refuses in the end. But so sensitive is the clandestine rendezvous-one of the terms discussed is Nazi control of Ireland-that even two generations later, anyone who learns of it is marked for XPD-Expedient Demise...
Along with enough plot convolutions, murders and cliffhangers to mesmerize aficionados, Deighton slings spy jargon with knowledgeable élan. He catalogues the latest Swedish submachine gun and the Führersonderzug-Hitler's private train-with field-manual precision. But he has more on his mind than the blueprints of military hardware...