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Len Deighton
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"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
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.
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Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert is exhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperienced new team.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 Löwenherz, 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.
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Great writing, awful narrartion
- By JW on 09-11-23
By: Len Deighton, and others
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The Ipcress File
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister.
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Why is this such a popular book?
- By MLC on 05-18-24
By: Len Deighton
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Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Norfolk, December, 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at an air base; their job is to escort bombers over Germany. Each mission could be their last. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid evocation of wartime England and a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war. At the center of the novel are two young men—Captain Jamie Farebrother, estranged son of a colonel, and cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed "Mickey Mouse"), well on his way to becoming America's Number One Flying Ace.
By: Len Deighton
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XPD
- The Staggering World War II Secret That Must Be Hidden at All Costs
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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It's 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a brilliant novel constructed around a supposition that Churchill secretly met with Hitler in 1940 to discuss terms of a British surrender.
By: Len Deighton
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Winter
- A Bernard Samson Novel
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 24 hrs and 55 mins
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In this expansive, rich, and deeply tragic portrait of a German family from 1899 to 1945, Len Deighton brilliantly weaves a portrait of the fortunes of two sons, and a nation, over half a century.
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Pauly
- By John C. Snyder on 01-21-25
By: Len Deighton
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Munich Wolf
- By: Rory Clements
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Munich, 1935. The Bavarian capital is a magnet for young aristocratic Britons who come to learn German, swim in the lakes and drink beer in the cellars. What they don't see—or choose to ignore—is the brutal underbelly of the Nazi movement, which considers Munich its spiritual home. When a high-born English girl is murdered, Detective Sebastian Wolff is ordered to solve the crime. Wolff is already walking a tight line between doing his job and falling foul of the political party he abhors. Now Hitler is taking a personal interest in the case.
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Never have heard of Rory Clements before this audible. But WOW what I’ve been missing.
- By paula wright on 07-26-24
By: Rory Clements
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Bomber
- By: Len Deighton, Malcolm Gladwell (Introduction)
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip, Malcolm Gladwell (Introduction), Len Deighton (Author's Note)
- Length: 21 hrs and 25 mins
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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 Löwenherz, 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.
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Great writing, awful narrartion
- By JW on 09-11-23
By: Len Deighton, and others
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The Ipcress File
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped, and a secret British intelligence agency has just recruited Deighton’s iconic unnamed protagonist—later christened Harry Palmer—to find out why. His search begins in a grimy Soho club and brings him to the other side of the world. When he ends up amongst the Soviets in Beirut, what seemed a straightforward mission turns into something far more sinister.
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Why is this such a popular book?
- By MLC on 05-18-24
By: Len Deighton
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Goodbye Mickey Mouse
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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Norfolk, December, 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at an air base; their job is to escort bombers over Germany. Each mission could be their last. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid evocation of wartime England and a brilliant, multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war. At the center of the novel are two young men—Captain Jamie Farebrother, estranged son of a colonel, and cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse (nicknamed "Mickey Mouse"), well on his way to becoming America's Number One Flying Ace.
By: Len Deighton
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Funeral in Berlin
- Harry Palmer, Book 3
- By: Len Deighton
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
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In 1963, Berlin is dark and dangerous. Len Deighton's skilled, jaded, anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File is now set to arrange the defection—and fake the death—of a leading Soviet scientist. "A ferociously cool fable" (New York Times) and one of the first novels written after the construction of the Berlin Wall, Funeral in Berlin revels in the fraught, chilling atmosphere of a divided city.
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I love the vagueness
- By Sagie on 05-26-24
By: Len Deighton
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V2
- A Novel of World War II
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Rudi Graf is an engineer who always dreamed of sending rockets to the moon. But instead, he finds himself working alongside Wernher von Braun, launching V2 rockets at London for the Nazis from a bleak seaside town in occupied Holland. As the SS increases its scrutiny of the project, Graf, an engineer more than a soldier, has to muster all of his willpower to toe the party line. And when rumors of a defector circulate through the German ranks, Graf becomes a prime suspect.
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Ho-Hum
- By Pete Harrell on 11-30-20
By: Robert Harris
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Dominion
- By: C.J. Sansom
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 20 hrs and 47 mins
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1952. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule - the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.
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Weak Tale Marred by Bias & Prejudice
- By Bill on 09-15-14
By: C.J. Sansom
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Fatherland
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: Michael Jayston
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Berlin, 1964. The Greater German Reich stretches from the Rhine to the Urals and keeps an uneasy peace with its nuclear rival, the United States. As the Fatherland prepares for a grand celebration honoring Adolf Hitler's 75th birthday and anticipates a conciliatory visit from US president Joseph Kennedy and ambassador Charles Lindbergh, a detective of the Kriminalpolizei is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin's most prestigious suburb.
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1960's Nazi Germany comes alive
- By Daniel Black on 10-19-17
By: Robert Harris
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A Small Town in Germany
- By: John Le Carré
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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In the late 1960s, in the town of Bonn, capital of West Germany, a British Embassy officer by the name of Leo Harting goes missing—and forty-three confidential-or-higher files with him. Dispatched from the British Foreign Office to investigate, Alan Turner arrives in Bonn to find riots, protests, and a tenuous balance of power. As if there isn’t enough pressure, the embassy’s head of Chancery, Rawley Bradfield, makes it clear he has no intentions of making Turner’s investigation an easy one.
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Worst narrator ever
- By Peter Schwenn on 11-07-24
By: John Le Carré
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Vienna at Nightfall
- Alex Kovacs Thriller Series, Book 1
- By: Richard Wake
- Narrated by: Neill Thorne
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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Alex Kovacs can see what’s coming – he can, all of his friends can, all of Vienna can. When an opportunity presents itself, a chance to thwart the Nazi invasion of Austria, he agrees to join an espionage network that will take advantage of his regular business trips to Germany to gather secret information. But a personal tragedy soon complicates Alex’s mission and entangles him with a suspicious Gestapo captain in ways that he never anticipated.
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excellent
- By Fred on 02-25-23
By: Richard Wake
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Matterhorn
- Mac Dekker, Book 1
- By: Christopher Reich
- Narrated by: Paul Michael
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Robbie Steinhardt lives a peaceful life. A fixture of his small alpine village, he tends cattle, minds his own business, and doesn’t dwell on his former life and the family and lover he left behind—back when he was Mac Dekker, CIA. But when he learns his son Will died following in his footsteps, he needs answers. What mission took Will up into the alpine heights, and why is Ilya Ivashka on the same trail? Ilya—his close friend, his rival in love. Ilya, who framed Mac for treason and sent him into hiding.
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Very Enjoyable Romp Through Switzerland
- By Bucko on 07-08-24
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Leaving Berlin
- A Novel
- By: Joseph Kanon
- Narrated by: Corey Brill
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Berlin, 1948. Almost four years after the war's end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life.
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Espionage In Berlin 1948
- By Sara on 01-04-16
By: Joseph Kanon
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Murder in the Ranks
- A Novel
- By: Kristi Jones
- Narrated by: Traci Odom
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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After her abusive German husband left her for dead and took their daughter with him behind enemy lines, Dottie Lincoln learned it's better to be a trained soldier rather than a victim. As a newly minted squad leader in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, she spends her days moving men and materials to the front and her nights attending mandatory dances to boost the morale of the men. Despite the grueling nature of her job, she has found a sanctuary amongst the women in the Army. When Ruth, a member of her squad, is murdered, she's devastated and determined to get to the bottom of the murder.
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Great new author
- By Margaret Machos on 12-10-24
By: Kristi Jones
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A Spy Alone
- The Oxford Spy Ring, Book 1
- By: Charles Beaumont
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Everyone knows about the Cambridge Spies from the fifties, identified and broken up after passing national secrets to the Soviets for years. But no spy ring was ever unearthed at Oxford. Because one never existed? Or because it was never found...?
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Amazing
- By Jessica on 09-02-24
By: Charles Beaumont
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An Officer and a Spy
- A Novel
- By: Robert Harris
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 16 hrs and 4 mins
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Paris in 1895: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish officer, has just been convicted of treason, sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island, and stripped of his rank in front of a baying crowd of 20,000. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, the ambitious, intellectual, recently promoted head of the counterespionage agency that Dreyfus had passed secrets to the Germans. At first, Picquart firmly believes in Dreyfus' guilt. But it is not long after Dreyfus is delivered to his desolate prison that Picquart stumbles on information that leads him to suspect that there is still a spy at large in the French military.
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Top Notch Historical Fiction
- By Ryan on 03-18-14
By: Robert Harris
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The Berlin Exchange
- A Novel
- By: Joseph Kanon
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
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Berlin, 1963. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, nor at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared into the English prison system.
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A fabulous thriller. As good as LeCarre
- By Rosemary Wells on 04-02-22
By: Joseph Kanon
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- Abigail
- 09-24-24
Hard to concentrate.
There were several points during the book where I had difficulty keeping track of the plot through the many, MANY, characters this novel introduces and the frequent and long instances of banter but James gave a wonderful performance calling upon his voice acting skills giving each and every one of them their own distinct voice and accents. Definitely recommend this man for future VA or narration works.
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- Peter W. Kalnin
- 11-05-24
Alt History
Much like PK Dick's Man In the High Castle but set in the UK. Very realistic.
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- BallaghMan
- 11-27-24
A German occupied Britain in WWII
Very convoluted and not easy to follow. But very interesting to see how Britain might have been occupied and how the Nazi admin might have worked.
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- George
- 11-08-24
Slow starter but strong finisher
Almost put this one down, but glad I did not. Super good suspense and twists and turns.
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- Douglas P. Horne
- 02-24-24
The Best World War II Espionage Novel Ever!
This is without a doubt the best World War II espionage novel I have ever encountered.
Len Deighton is to be profoundly thanked; this fine story represents a lifetime of acquired writing skills on his part.
The author creates a chilling portrait of what a Nazi-occupied Britain would have been like, in 1941: the dark competition and mistrust between the German Army and the S.S., and the extreme danger of working in the British resistance, are masterfully described, and experienced, by the reader.
Worth reading, and immediately re-reading!
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- drive-by critic
- 09-16-24
Great storytelling
I don’t normally like alternate histories. I liked this one. Len Deighton has always been one of my most favorite “vintage” English authors. My only issue with the story was one, the very end when too many character’s part in the story was left unexplained. As in, what happened to so in so and two, the reader’s American accent wasn’t very American. That surprised me because usually, most English actors have no problem mimicking an American voice. Small stuff. The book was really very well done.
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- swimming is like playing guitar
- 10-14-24
Great example of the genre
Good reader. Great story. Noir counterfactual history. I want a movie with Donat or Bogart.
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- Stephen
- 09-28-24
Good alternative history!
I liked that this book seemed very plausible. There are some parts I don't understand, like Germany's position on the Soviet Union. I feel that would be very different if England had been forced out of the war when this book takes place. The relationship of the Germans to the British seems plausible though. I enjoyed this book.
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