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FICTION: Birdy, William Wharton Dubin's Lives, Bernard Malamud Fielder's Choice, edited by Jerome Holtzman ∙ Good as Gold, Joseph Heller ∙ SS-GB, Len Deighton ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass
...Deighton...
...marvels of this century that the Germans did not conquer Britain in World War II. To this day, Englishmen wonder how they would have fared and behaved as an island extension of the Third Reich. The premise of Len Deighton's absorbing new novel is that there would always have been an England, even under Nazi rule...
...does an honorable Englishman comport himself? Deighton's engaging, complex hero, Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer, 30, carries on, tackling the tricky homicide cases for which he is celebrated (the Pimlico bread knife slaying, the Great Yarmouth seafood murder). Now, however, Oxonian Archer and his boozy, street-smart assistant, Detective Sergeant Harry Woods, are working directly under Gruppenführer Fritz Kellerman, senior SS officer and police chief of Great Britain. Unlike his compatriots, the Yard man is free to move around at will in a prewar Railton automobile; he gets German-issue cigarettes, frequent dollops of real Highland Scotch...
...atomic installation on England's south coast. Struggling to find his bearings in a maze of intrigue and counterintrigue, Archer joins a Resistance conspiracy to spirit the King out of the country and the atomic secrets into American hands. Things do not work out that simply. No Len Deighton plot ever does. In his unraveling, the au thor of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin produces a series of memorable set pieces. In one celebrating German-Soviet Friendship Week (Hitler had decided not to invade the Soviet Union), there is an at tempt to disinter the bones...