John Lawton
1) Black out
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English
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John Lawton’s debut novel: a stunning, WWII thriller introducing Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant Troy. “A delightful, intelligent, involving book” (Scott Turow).
The first of the Inspector Troy novels, Black Out singularly captures the realities of wartime London, weaving them into a riveting drama that encapsulates the uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar era.
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The first of the Inspector Troy novels, Black Out singularly captures the realities of wartime London, weaving them into a riveting drama that encapsulates the uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar era.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"It is 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 Continental trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate being fifty so instead takes his entire family on "the Grand Tour" for his fifty-first birthday: Paris, Siena, Florence, Vienna, Amsterdam. Restaurants, galleries and concert halls. But Frederick Troy...
3) Sweet Sunday
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[2014]
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266 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"As a detective, [Turner Raines has] found his niche. In the summer of 1969--the hottest, sweatiest in history, the American summer in the American year in the American century--the USA is about to land a man on the moon, and the Vietnam War is set to continue to rip the country to pieces, setting sons against fathers, fathers against sons. If your kid dodges the draft, hooks up with a hippie commune, makes a dash for Canada, Turner Raines is the...
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Joe Wilderness novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. Alas, his postings are usually rather unglamorous, but thankfully he has a knack for doing well for himself even in unpromising situations. In divided Berlin, he smuggled coffee into the East, a rather profitable racket until he had to transport something else-a spy. After an aborted mission on Berlin's famous "Bridge of Spies,"...
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[2013]
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English
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Joe Wilderness is a World War II orphan, which he thinks excuses him from common morality. Cat burglar, card sharp, and Cockney wide boy, the last thing he wants is to get drafted. But in 1946 he finds himself in the RAF, facing a stretch in military prison, when along comes Lt. Colonel Burne-Jones to tell him MI6 has better use for his talents. Posted to occupied Berlin, Wilderness finds himself with time on his hands and the devil making work.
6) Moscow exile
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English
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"From "quite possibly the best historical novelist we have" (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, DC to a KGB prison near Moscow's Kremlin. In Moscow Exile, John Lawton departs from his usual stomping grounds of England and Germany to jump across the Atlantic to Washington, DC, in the fragile postwar period where the Red Scare is growing noisier every day. Charlotte is a British expatriate...
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Frederick Troy novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Joe Wilderness novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
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352 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Directed by MI6 to Berlin in 1963 to negotiate a delicate prisoner exchange on either side of the wall, Joe Wilderness covertly plans to use the operation to make a little something extra on the side, with unexpected results.
10) Second violin
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Frederick Troy novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2007]
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419 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
In 1938, with Europe on the brink of war, Frederick Troy, recently promoted to Scotland Yards Murder Squad, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian enemy aliens, but as the bombs begin to fall on London, he finds himself investigating a series of murdered rabbis.
11) Flesh wounds
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Frederick Troy novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
12) Old flames
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Frederick Troy novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English