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Ss-Gb
First published 1978
Britain, 1941, after a German victory that never occurred. London is occupied, the government has been broken and Scotland Yard works under the authority of the new regime. Detective Douglas Archer is assigned a murder that appears ordinary until evidence points toward German security organisations, British resistance activity and a secret important enough to involve the highest levels of occupation government.
Archer must investigate while every institution around him has changed meaning. Deighton uses the conventions of a police procedural to explore collaboration, resistance and survival, asking how professional duty functions when the state itself has been conquered.
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