Slipstream - Simon Bovey

This is a groovy little wartime sci-fi tale about a covert British commando group heading to Germany to locate and capture a flying saucer.  It’s a strange combination of stiff upper lip Englishness and amoral cold-bloodedness, the two being not mutually incompatible.  

Major Barton (the leader of the force) is a fab creation straight out of the Garth Ennis war books.  He leads the force through a story which has a strange mix of total war attitudes mixed with a yearning for peace and understanding – mostly on the part of the ship & Jurgen the ex-Luftwaffe pilot.

I thoroughly enjoyed this.  It was both Quatermassy and Garth Ennisy.  Good old fashioned British sci-fi.