RIP Len Deighton.

Deighton's working class spys in books such as the Ipcress File & Funeral in Berlin were a major shift in the literature of espionage...but for me, his best work was Bomber.

And the reason: my father pilot & Squadron Leader in Bomber Command during WW2, thought it was the best depiction of what he had gone through, he ever read & this from a man who refused for the most part to discuss his role in what he had subsequently concluded was a war crime.

#RIPLenDeighton

@ChrisMayLA6 And this is how I find out :(

I read SS-GB on a whim last year and I couldn't put it down. It was smarter than I expected, and despite the bleak subject matter Len knew when a precise moment of levity was needed. It was an outstanding read.

@itsolive

agreed; great book.... its the classic case of a 'popular' writer who was master craftsman being under-rated by the cultural elite because his work wasn't 'literature' - he was a brilliant *writer*