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2) Black out
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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 London, weaving them into a riveting drama that encapsulates the uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar era. London, 1944. While the Luftwaffe...
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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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Frederick Troy novels volume 6
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[2007]
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Frederick Troy, climbing the ranks of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad in the late 1930s, gets caught in the middle of the chaos surrounding the dawn of World War II when he is assigned to round up enemy aliens--a group that includes his Austrian-born brother Rod, a foreign correspondent--and must lead the investigation into a series of murders targeting rabbis.
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