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Horse Under Water
Len Deighton

One of the early Deighton books written in '63. This is part of the un-named "Harry Palmer" books. This one concerns diving for a sunken U-boat off the coast of Portugal. Per normal you don't know what is going on and the true purpose of everything is not evident until the end. Also deals heavily with everybodys involvement in the war.

Two interesting items for Deighton fans. One part of the book deals with people in Britian who were sympathic to the Germans, and who would hold high posistions in the puppet government after Germany defeated England. I wonder if these are the same people who appear in SS-GB Deighton dystopian book about the German occupation of England. Also toward the end of the book there is a 'new guy' in the office name Bernard that runs a few un-important errands... Is this Bernard Sampson??