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Second Violin
John Lawton
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Description for Second Violin
Paperback. The sixth book in John Lawton's Inspector Troy series, selected by Time magazine as one of 'Six Detective Series to Savour' alongside Michael Connelly and Donna Leon. Series: Inspector Troy. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 402.
Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst. 1938. The Germans take Vienna without a shot being fired. Covering Austria for the English press is a young journalist named Rod Troy. Back home his younger brother joins the CID as a detective constable. Two years later tensions are rising and 'enemy aliens' are rounded up in London for internment. In the midst of the chaos London's most prominent rabbis ... Read more
Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst. 1938. The Germans take Vienna without a shot being fired. Covering Austria for the English press is a young journalist named Rod Troy. Back home his younger brother joins the CID as a detective constable. Two years later tensions are rising and 'enemy aliens' are rounded up in London for internment. In the midst of the chaos London's most prominent rabbis ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Inspector Troy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781611855869
SKU
V9781611855869
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About John Lawton
John Lawton worked for Channel 4 for many years, and, among many others, produced Harold Pinter's 'O Superman', the least-watched most-argued-over programme of the 90s. He has written seven novels in his Troy series, two Joe Wilderness novels, the standalone Sweet Sunday, a couple of short stories and the occasional essay. He writes very slowly and almost entirely on the ... Read more
Reviews for Second Violin
Smart and gracefully written . . . It has been Lawton's achievement to capture, in first-rate popular fiction, the courage and drama
and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance
of that terrible and thrilling moment in twentieth-century history.
Washington Post
One of the joys of reviewing crime fiction is that now and then one comes across . . ... Read more
and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance
of that terrible and thrilling moment in twentieth-century history.
Washington Post
One of the joys of reviewing crime fiction is that now and then one comes across . . ... Read more