Len Deighton - Len Deighton 3-Book War Collection Volume 1 - Bomber, XPD, Goodbye Mickey Mouse

These novels are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Bomber first published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1970 XPD first published in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd 1981 Goodbye Mickey Mouse first published in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd 1982

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Copyright Copyright Copyright Bomber XPD Goodbye Mickey Mouse Keep Reading About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher These novels are entirely works of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in them are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk Bomber first published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape Ltd 1970 XPD first published in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd 1981 Goodbye Mickey Mouse first published in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd 1982 Copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 1970, 1981, 1982 Introductions Copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2009 Cover design © Arnold Schwartzman 2009 E-bundle cover design © HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. 2013 Len Deighton asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks HarperCollins Publishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBNs: 9780586045442, 9780586054475, 9780586054482 Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780007546503 Version: 2017-08-18

Bomber

XPD

Goodbye Mickey Mouse

Keep Reading

About the Author

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

Bomber XPD Goodbye Mickey Mouse Keep Reading About the Author Also by the Author About the Publisher

LEN DEIGHTON

Events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943

Ritual: A system of religious or magical ceremonies or procedures frequently with special forms of words or a special (and secret) vocabulary, and usually associated with important occasions or actions.

Dr J. Dever,

Dictionary of Psychology (Penguin Books)

Between February 1965 and July 31st, 1968, the American bombing missions in Vietnam numbered 107,700. The tonnage of bombs and rockets totalled 2,581,876.

Keisinger’s Continuous Archives

The attitude of the gallant Six Hundred which so aroused Lord Tennyson’s admiration arose from the fact that the least disposition to ask the reason why was discouraged by tricing the would-be inquirer to the triangle and flogging him into insensibility.

F. J. Veale,

Advance to Barbarism (Mitre Press, 1968)

Cover

Title Page

Epigraph

Map

Introduction

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Bomber was the first fiction book written using what is now called a ‘word processor’. In 1969 that name did not exist. It was an IBM engineer visiting my home at the Elephant and Castle in London to check my golfball typewriter, who asked me: ‘ Do you know how many times your secretary has retyped this chapter ?’ He waved pages in the air.

‘ Half a dozen times ?’ I said defensively. I knew my wonderful Australian secretary Ellenor Handley retyped chapters only when her typewritten words were almost obscured by my handwritten changes.

‘ Twenty-five times ,’ said the IBM man. ‘ Your poor secretary! ’

I tried to look repentant.

Along the street at the mighty Shell Centre, IBM had installed banks of computer-driven machines that produced printed in-house essentials such as instruction manuals.