A Little White Death

by JohnLawton (Author)

• Used

  Mass Market Paperback
  1999

  $5.01

  Inspector Troy returns in this thriller set in 1963 - the year of the Profumo scandal, Kim Philby's defection and Harold Macmillan's resignation. Fighting ill-health, Troy finds his past catching up with him following a British traitor's defection to Moscow from Beirut.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $4.78

  At the country home of a Harley street doctor, the illustrious, the notorious and the ambitious gather for a house party. The resulting trail of broken lives and dead bodies leads all the way to the crumbling core of the British establishment. This time Fitz's infamous ability to ' mix it' - class and race, sex and politics - is about to blow up in his face. Left to pick up the pieces is Russian emigre Commander Troy, now senior detective at Scotland Yard. Addicted to drugs after a brush with the white death - Troy is up to his neck in scandal, personally and professionally. And the English can be so unforgiving of a good scandal...

• Used

  Hardcover
  1998

  $3.50

  1963: A Tory government beset by a defection, sexual scandal, cover-up and a ministerial resignation - Frederick Troy, now Britain's most senior police detective, unravels a trail that leads to death at the very heart of the Establishment and a failing administration.

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $20.60

  The latest novel from the master spy novelist John Lawton follows Inspector Troy, now Scotland Yard s chief detective, deep into a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair.England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The old guard, shocked by the habits of the war baby youth, sets out to fight back. The battle reaches uncomfortably close to Troy. While he is on medical leave, the Yard brings charges against an acquaintance of his, a hedonistic doctor with a penchant for voyeurism and young women, two of whom just happen to be sleeping with a senior man at the Foreign Office as well as a KGB agent.But on the eve of the verdict a curious double case of suicide drags Troy back into active duty. Beyond bedroom acrobatics, the secret affairs now stretch to double crosses and deals in the halls of power, not to mention murder. It s all Troy can do to stay afloat in a country immersed in drugs, up to its neck in scandal.