Goodbye Mickey Mouse

Author:Len Deighton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: World War II, Mystery & Detective, War & Military, 1939-1945, Fiction, General, Suspense, English fiction, Thrillers, Military, World War, Espionage, History
ISBN: 9780586054482
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1983-09-30T23:00:00+00:00

Captain James A. Farebrother

The cold front that had brought havoc to the Brunswick mission passed across Britain, so that by the following morning there was the usual west wind and blue sky that is a legacy of such weather systems. Farebrother got up early and bicycled across to the technical site in search of Kibitzer.

He found her in number two hangar. She was a sorry sight, fuselage and half the port wing black with German oil which in places had baked on in a shiny finish. Her port wing was supported by a heavy tripod jack so that two mechanics could kneel under the wing to work at the disc brakes. One of them threw a spanner into the open toolbox with enough noise to awaken MM’s dog, which stood up, stared, yapped unconvincingly, and settled down again.

Farebrother walked round and touched the sharp edges of the alloy from where the sheet-metal workers had removed a wing tip and taken it away to the machine shop. The engine covers had been removed to reveal the entrails of the engine, and up by the nose of the aircraft there was a pulpit-like metal rack. On it stood three men bending close to the Merlin’s innards.

‘How is it’ Farebrother called up to them.

The men at the engine looked down and he recognized Tex Gill and Mickey Mouse. The third man, wearing master sergeant’s stripes painted on his leather jacket, was the line chief.

‘You were lucky to get this heap home,’ said MM. He was wearing the olive-coloured herringbone twill coveralls that the fitters wore, and a fleece-lined jacket, a painting of Mickey Mouse filling the back of it. ‘Looks like three cannon shells went through her without exploding.’

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