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SS-GB Historical Fiction Paperback Book by Len Deighton from Ballantine 1983
The King is a hostage in the tower, the Queen and Princesses have fled to Australia, Churchill has been executed by a firing squad, Englishmen are being deported to work in German factories and the dreaded SS is in charge of Scotland Yard.
London is in shock.
The very look of daily life is a walking nightmare of German uniforms, artifacts, regulations.
There are collaborators. There are profiteers. But there are others working in hope, in secret, and desperate danger, against the invader.
And still others are living strangely ambiguous lives – none more so than Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer ("Archer of the yard" as the press like to call him), trying to maintain a peculiarly, almost sacredly, British institution under a Nazi chief.
Archer has started work on what seems, at first, a routine murder case.
But suddenly an SS Standartenführer from Himmler's personal staff flies in from Berlin to supervise the investigation, and Archer is plunged deep into an espionage battle for which he is completely unprepared, and where the stakes are incredibly high.
"We’re dealing with something that could prove so deadly that not even the Black Death would compare with the consequences", the SS man tells him.
Book is in acceptable condition. General shelf and corner wear. Some light staining on interior and exterior. A few white marks on front and back cover. Spine has some issues (See photo #3). Cover creasing. Scraping on the front and back cover. Spine slanting. Some light water damage. A solid reading copy. Please see photos for details, and let me know if you have any questions. Shipping and Return Details
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