SS-GB
Translation by Jean Rosenthal of
SS-GB

There can be little doubt that this is much the way things would have turned out if the Germans had won the war.
Times Literary Supplement

Illustration : Jean-Pierre Normand
November 1941. Since the capitulation of Great Britain, the German army and the entire country is held in the tentacles of the Nazi bureaucracy.

In Scotland Yard, Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer, who lost his wife during the final bombing raids, keeps working unenthusiastically under the orders of the Gruppenführer Fritz Kellerman.

During a routine investigation of an antique dealer's death, he discovers strange secret negotiations between the German army and leading members of the Resistance. When the Standartenführer Huth, who is close to Himmler, arrives especially from Berlin to supervise the investigation, Archer realizes that he has stumbled on something much bigger than he had imagined, something that could well change the fate of the whole free world.

SS-GB : a spy novel like none you've ever read before, with a frighteningly effective plot.

Len Deighton
SS-GB
462 pages, $15.95