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A Lily of the Field by John Lawton
Category: Fiction
Bringing to life pre-war Vienna and post-war London—spanning the rise of Hitler to the post-atomic age—this breathtaking novel is espionage fiction at its best. 'Observe in what an original world we are now living: how many men can you find in Europe who have never killed; or whom somebody does not wish ...Show more
A Lily of the Field by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Troy
'Observe in what an original world we are now living: how many men can you find in Europe who have never killed; or whom somebody does not wish to kill?' Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany. The Isle of Man, 1 ...Show more
A Little White Death by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The latest novel from the master spy novelist John Lawton follows Inspector Troy, now Scotland Yard's chief detective, deep into a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair.England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The old guard, shocked by the habits of the war baby youth, sets out to fight ...Show more
A Little White Death by John Lawton
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Troy
England is a country set to explode but Troy is fighting his own battle against ill-health. While he is on medical leave, the Yard brings charges against an acquaintance of his, a hedonistic doctor with a penchant for voyeurism and young women, two of whom just happen to be sleeping with a senior man at ...Show more
Black Out by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Troy Thriller
John Lawton's debut novel--first published by Viking in 1995, and now being reissued by Grove Press--is a stunning, war-time thriller that cements his place among the greatest crime writers of our era. The first of the Inspector Troy novels, "Black Out" singularly captures the realities of wartime Londo ...Show more
Black Out by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Troy
The Blitz, London 1944. As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners take to the shelters once again and eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German and it soon becomes c ...Show more
Blue Rondo by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Troy
An old flame has returned to Troy's life: Kitty Stilton, now wife of an American presidential hopeful, has come back to London, and with her, an unwelcome guest. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty's amorous liaisons with a rat-pack crooner don't ruin her husband's political career. ...Show more
Bluffing Mr. Churchill - An Inspector Troy Thriller by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Inspector Troy Novels Ser.
It is 1941. Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an SS officer, has just fled Germany with Hitler's henchmen on his trail. He is carrying valuable cargo--the blueprint of the F hrer's secret plan to invade Russia. Stahl's man in the American embassy, the shy and sheltered Calvin M. Co ...Show more
Friends and Traitors by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers
London, 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard--newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain--is not looking forward to a European trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod has decided to take his entire family on "the Grand Tour" for his fifty-first birt ...Show more
Friends and Traitors by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Troy
London, 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard--newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain--is not looking forward to a European trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod has decided to take his entire family on "the Grand Tour" for his fifty-first birt ...Show more
Hammer to Fall by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The third Joe Wilderness spy thriller from a master of the genre, moving from icy Finland to tumultuous Cold War Prague, Hammer to Fall is a tale of vodka smuggling and a legendary female Red Army general who is playing a dangerous game It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Jo ...Show more
Hammer to Fall by John Lawton
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Joe Wilderness
It's London, the swinging sixties, and by rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, in the wake of an embarrassing disaster for MI6, Wilderness has been posted to remote northern Finland in a cultural exchange program to promote Britain abroad. Bored by his ...Show more