Charlie StrossLen Deighton has died (age: 97):
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/article/len-deighton-obituary-death-32565cvnk
Fazal Majid@cstross What's your favorite book of his? Mine is "XPD".
@fazalmajid It's decades since I read any of his books. The one that stuck with me most was "Bomber"—a thinly fictionalized account of the facts around an RAF heavy bomber raid on a German city during the war. Pulled no punches in describing the horror of it, from everyone's perspective.
@cstross Yes, Bomber was outstanding, and I came to add it to the list, albeit in a completely different register, to the point I had forgotten Deighton wrote it.
klegdixal@cstross @fazalmajid indeed if had to pick one it'd be Bomber before all the spy stuff.