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Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2008], cc2007
Language
English
Description
One of today's top historical espionage writers, John Lawton, adds another spellbinding thriller to his Inspector Troy series with Second Violin. The sixth installment in the series, Lawton's new novel opens in 1938 with Europe on the brink of war. In London, Frederick Troy, newly promoted to the prestigious murder squad at Scotland Yard, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian "enemy aliens" that also includes Frederick's brother,...
2) Old flames
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In April 1956, at the height of the Cold War, Khrushchev and Bulganin, leaders of the Soviet Union, are in Britain on an official visit. Chief Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard is assigned to be Khrushchev's bodyguard and to spy on him. Soon after, a Royal Navy diver is found dead and mutilated beyond recognition in Portsmouth Harbor. Troy embarks on an investigation that takes him to the rotten heart of MI6, to the distant days of his childhood, and...
Author
Series
Joe Wilderness novels volume 3
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
MI6 spy Joe Wilderness is posted in remote northern Finland. Bored by his work, with nothing to spy on, Wilderness finds another way to make money, smuggling vodka across the rather porous border into the USSR. He strikes a deal with his old KGB pal Kostya, who explains to him there is a vodka shortage in the Soviet Union, following a grain famine caused by Khrushchev's new agricultural policies. But there is something fishy about why Kostya has suddenly...
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