In Goodbye Mickey Mouse Len Deighton has written his best novel yet: a brilliant multi-dimensional picture of what it is to be at war...and what it was to be in love in the England of 1944. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is Deightons fourteenth novel & a vivid evocation of wartime England the story of a group of American fighter pilots flying escort missions over Germany in the winter of 1943-4. At the centre of the novel are two young men: the deeply reserved Captain Jamie Farebrother estranged son of a deskbound colonel & the cocky Lieutenant Mickey Morse well on his way to becoming Americas Number One Flying Ace. Alike only in their courage they forge a bond of friendship in battle with far-reaching consequences for themselves & for the future of those they love.