Legacy
Bomber is regarded well in some circles. Anthony Burgess, in Ninety-nine Novels, cited it as one of the 99 best novels in English since 1939.
In 1979 Motörhead frontman, Lemmy, dedicated the band's 3rd album Bomber to Len Deighton, as it was his novel that had inspired the title-track.
Bomber was announced, on 1 February 2010, as one of twenty-one titles longlisted for the "Lost Man Booker Prize" of 1970, a contest delayed by 40 years because a reshuffling of the fledgeling competition's rules that year disqualified nearly a year's worth of high-quality fiction from consideration. The book did not make the shortlist.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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