John Lawton, Author Atlantic Monthly $24 (419p) ISBN 978-0-87113-991-7
Lawton’s engrossing sixth entry but the first chronologically in his Inspector Troy thriller series (Black Out
, etc.) chronicles the major events leading up to WWII—Germany’s annexation of Austria, Chamberlain’s peace...
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John Lawton, Atlantic Monthly, $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1956-8
Lawton has divided his atypical seventh Inspector Troy thriller (after Second Violin) in two. The first part, "Audacity," spans the years from 1934 to 1946, ranging from Vienna before the Anschluss to the site of the A-bomb test in the New Mexico...
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John Lawton. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (432p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2196-7
This intelligent first in a new series from Lawton (A Lily of the Field and six other Inspector Troy thrillers) opens on the eve of President Kennedy’s 1963 Berlin visit, but the real meat lies in the compelling backstory of John Wilford Holderness,
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John Lawton. Atlantic Monthly, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2307-7
The summer of 1969, a time of change, activism, and turmoil in the U.S., gets a dense, uninspired look in this standalone from Lawton, best known for his Inspector Troy series (Black Out, etc.). Turner Raines has failed at just about everything,...
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John Lawton. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2399-2
At the start of Lawton’s outstanding second Joe Wilderness novel (after 2014’s Then We Take Berlin), the former MI6 agent accidentally shoots and kills a nuclear physicist he’s trying to smuggle out of East Berlin in 1963. When Alexander Burne-Jones,
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John Lawton. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2706-8
The lives of Scotland Yard detective Frederick Troy and real-life historical figure Guy Burgess, the English traitor who spied for the Russians, intersect in Lawton’s superb eighth Inspector Troy novel (after 2010’s A Lily of the Field). After their
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John Lawton, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (512p) ISBN 978-0-87113-864-4
Third-timer Lawton (1963; Black Out) breathes new life into an increasingly creaky genre with this complex, evocative tale that's part Cold War thriller, part whodunit and part olde English lament. Reprising his role as a Russian aristoi–c
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John Lawton, Author . Atlantic Monthly $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-87113-907-8
In this stimulating prequel to Lawton's acclaimed Inspector Troy series (Black Out
; Old Flames
; etc.), London is in the middle of the blitz and 25-year-old Freddie Troy is a Scotland Yard sergeant, chafing at the limits of his post. As the...
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John Lawton, Author . Atlantic Monthly $23 (352p) ISBN 978-0-87113-698-5
British author Lawton's marvelously evocative series of mysteries about Det. Sgt. Freddie Troy, Anglo-Russian Londoner, have been written and/or published in such a confusing order that it's hard to determine where this one, originally...
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John Lawton, Author . Atlantic Monthly $23 (440p) ISBN 978-0-87113-932-0
London in the swinging '60s provides the setting for this latest in Lawton's series featuring Scotland Yard lawman Frederick Troy. Troy finds himself a reluctant attendee at several country weekends where a flashy acquaintance, Dr. Patrick...
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John Lawton, Author Penguin Books $11.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-14-024081-8
Lawton's debut thriller concerns conspiracy and murder in London during the Blitz. (July)
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John Lawton, Author Viking Books $22.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-670-85767-8
Lawton's first novel, a conventional thriller set in London during the last months of WWII, concerns a Scotland Yard detective's entanglement with MI5 and the OSS as he tracks down the killer of scientists studying the Nazi atomic rocketry program....
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John Lawton. Atlantic Monthly, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8021-4812-4
Lawton scores another hit with his third Joe Wilderness novel (after 2016’s The Unfortunate Englishman). Joe starts off in familiar territory, 1948 Berlin, where he’s nominally in the Royal Air Force but in reality an MI6 agent; he’s also smuggling...
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