Goodbye Mickey Mouse
Len Deighton
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.
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FIRST EDITION
First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd 1982
Copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 1982
Introduction copyright © Pluriform Publishing Company BV 2009
The author and publisher would like to thank The Big 3 Music Ltd and United Artists Music Co. Inc. for kind permission to quote from ‘For All We Know’ by Sam M. Lewis and J. Fred Coots (© 1934 Leo Feist Inc.), and Famous Chappell and Chappell Music Canada Ltd for kind permission to quote from ‘That Old Black Magic’, from the film Star Spangled Rhythm, music by Harold Arlen and words by Johnny Mercer (© 1942 Famous Music Corp.)
Len Deighton asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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And all men kill the thing they love,
By all let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword.
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Mickey Mouse, US Military Slang. Anything that is unnecessary or unimportant. (Named for the Walt Disney animated cartoon character, in allusion to its childish appeal, its simplicity, triviality, etc.)
The Barnhart Dictionary of New English
Table of Contents
2 Captain James A. Farebrother
3 Staff Sergeant Harold E. Boyer
6 Captain James A. Farebrother
9 Captain James A. Farebrother
11 Brigadier General Alexander J. Bohnen
12 Captain James A. Farebrother
15 Captain James A. Farebrother
16 Lieutenant Colonel Druce ‘Duke’ Scroll
18 Lieutenant Stefan ‘Fix’ Madjicka
24 Lieutenant Colonel Druce ‘Duke’ Scroll
25 Brigadier General Alexander J. Bohnen