XPD

XPD
Len Deighton

June 11, 1940 – where is Winston Churchill?A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while Adolf Hitler, the would-be conqueror of Europe, prepares for a clandestine meeting near the Belgian border.For more than forty years the events of this day have been Britain’s most closely guarded secret. Anyone who learns of them must die - with their file stamped:XPD - expedient demise

LEN DEIGHTON

XPD

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First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd 1981

Copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 1981

Introduction copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2009

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Epigraph (#ulink_8cc900d1-937d-5457-bd42-0f89c066cae7)

‘The Second World War produced, in the end, one victor, the United States, one hero, Great Britain, one villain, Germany …’

Hitler, by N. Stone

Table of Contents

Cover (#ue2a7d280-e49a-5838-bfb5-e93b6d3665ab)

Title Page (#u8a76c787-7a3d-5271-837d-ac556625ef9b)

Copyright (#u517f593a-7648-58db-a0eb-c40413acaf44)

Epigraph (#u781337af-4b7d-548e-b181-1cbe81e61aa2)

Introduction (#ufda9ef58-b77f-5866-b1cc-4cbc1f73f4f2)

Chapter 1 (#u3a03e65d-7119-591b-98c3-f6dc1d0b25e4)

Chapter 2 (#ub789c2e1-3f95-5f9c-88cc-febc93c963c3)

Chapter 3 (#u48b1d3e7-52c8-5374-912d-6611bdb2a5c2)

Chapter 4 (#u1500b264-3c02-513d-bb55-a844b728bf55)

Chapter 5 (#u9dd930c5-373b-5e76-b084-780b648bfd0a)

Chapter 6 (#u6f941988-3f61-5a51-95e3-c9b34ac48bb2)

Chapter 7 (#u2f1a467a-99c9-555a-b23f-6c2dabaea353)

Chapter 8 (#u7fcd12ce-7a2f-5624-9bc1-77184721b88d)

Chapter 9 (#udde0224e-728c-5c37-80b6-2d28561e61b0)

Chapter 10 (#u2bb92a32-ab53-59d6-8090-35e69f218624)

Chapter 11 (#u4dcb125d-73ae-5e01-9b5e-0b89c7da660c)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 20 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)