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Second Violin

English

By (author): John Lawton

Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carré, 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 are being picked off one by one and Troy must race to stop the killer.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 298g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Sep 2013
  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781611855869

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 hoof in the USA or Italy but professes to be a resident of a tiny village in the Derbyshire Peak District. He admires the work of Barbara Gowdy TC Boyle Oliver Bleeck Franz Schubert and Clara Schumann - and is passionate about the playing of Maria Joao Pires. He has no known hobbies belongs to no organisations and hates being photographed.

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