Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert is exhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperienced new team. Victor von Löwenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAF bombers in his Junkers Ju 88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. And Hansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambert and his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It’s a night that many will never forget.

Bomber is a masterful, gripping, minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyes of protag­onists on all sides and astonishingly precise in its depictions of planes, weapons, and behind-the-scenes war strategy, this is Len Deighton at his best. An unforgettable portrait of war, both in the air and on the ground.

Praise for Bomber:

“Deighton’s debut radically revamped the modern spy novel. . . The rest of us will regard [Len Deighton’s thrillers] as carefully crafted literary fiction — intelligent books packed with grit, wit, sharp dialogue, and well-drawn characters, books that explore geopolitical tensions, class division, and the human capacity for secrecy and subterfuge while maintaining high levels of intrigue and suspense.”—Malcolm Forbes, The Washington Examiner

“Bomber by Len Deighton offers an historically accurate background to his masterfully written, inherently gripping, minute-by-minute account of what was to occur over the next twenty-four hours. Told from the perspective of protagonists on all sides and astonishingly precise in its depictions of planes, weapons, and behind-the-scenes war strategy, Bomber is novelist Len Deighton at his best as he presents an unforgettable portrait of war, both in the air and on the ground. A ‘must’ for the legions of Len Deighton fans, this edition of Bomber from Grove Press is highly recommended for personal and community library World War II fiction collections.”—Midwest Book Review