SS-GB

SS-GB
Len Deighton

In February 1941 British Command surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall…For nine months Britain has been occupied - a blitzed, depressed and dingy country. However, it’s ‘business as usual’ at Scotland Yard run by the SS when Detective Inspector Archer is assigned to a routine murder case. Life must go on.But when SS Standartenfuhrer Huth arrives from Berlin with orders from the great Himmler himself to supervise the investigation, the resourceful Archer finds himself caught up in a high level, all action, espionage battle.This is a spy story quite different from any other. Only Deighton, with his flair for historical research and his narrative genius, could have written it.

LEN DEIGHTON

SS-GB

Copyright (#u34757546-68c2-5f77-aa05-3a0133075a98)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

A paperback edition 2009

FIRST EDITION

First published in Great Britain by

Jonathan Cape Ltd 1978

Cover design © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2017 Cover photograph © Sid Gentle Films Ltd 2017

Copyright © Len Deighton 1978

Introduction copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2009

The verse from ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’ is reproduced by permission of EMI Publishers Ltd 138–140 Charing Cross Road, London WC2H 0LD. © 1941 by Shapiro Bernstein & Co., Inc., subpublished by B. Feldman & Co. Ltd

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 non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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 e-books.

Ebook Edition © 1978 ISBN: 9780007347742

Version: 2017-05-22

Table of Contents

Cover (#ue8d2bb1a-9343-5e4c-86ec-829253ebe6f4)

Title Page (#uf37fa5d7-3c57-5423-bd26-4dfa655fbbd0)

Copyright (#u6d8a927a-1957-5cc1-8634-efbefaad8913)

Introduction (#uc6040368-d30b-52d2-b632-01c7b054aa57)

Chapter One (#ubf227d7b-4796-583f-94d8-de4c3b4d4161)

Chapter Two (#u603026f0-922c-597c-ae16-515fc7817471)

Chapter Three (#u216480ae-9f56-5ffb-a46a-7ce909d45bbc)

Chapter Four (#u37ff6e25-3fb5-56c2-8250-0e4d60a1c37e)

Chapter Five (#ue74bd6d2-3137-5b68-9e98-c782156f5b77)

Chapter Six (#uf16a53a7-4fc1-5f94-91da-379d1659b144)

Chapter Seven (#ud724cfac-3f67-50de-bc7c-412e3dbbec7e)

Chapter Eight (#u0ce5df5b-53b9-54b3-b7c3-c02f9bfe2276)

Chapter Nine (#u6d468319-aad9-5d8e-b8c4-ff07675dec84)

Chapter Ten (#u9acdf749-b32b-5f98-b740-d2cdd6ffda7d)

Chapter Eleven (#u908b7b8e-fd8c-5cb1-b779-00456ae27fcc)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-four (#litres_trial_promo)