by JohnLawton (Author)
London in the late 1950s. The East End is ripe for redevelopment; the property sharks are buying up the bombsites and Victorian terraces; corruption is rife; Macmillan is PM of a shaky Tory government; Gaitskell expects to succeed as the first Labour PM for almost a decade to the delight of Troy's brothers, one an MP, the other a Fleet Street editor. Troy's last big case was to protect the Russian leaders, Bulganin and Khrushchev, on their first visit to Britain in 1956. Now a series of increasingly sadistic murders occurs on his old East End patch; a wartime girlfriend, who became a GI bride - since married to a Democratic Presidential candidate - reappears into his life. Nor is she the only woman to occupy his bed. When 'Ike', the retiring US President, makes a farewell visit to London, all Troy's worlds combine in a frightening cresendo of corruption and violence.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0753818949
ISBN 13: 9780753818947
Book Overview: John Lawton's Frederick Troy novels including BLACK OUT, OLD FLAMES, A LITTLE WHITE DEATH and RIPTIDE have been bought for filming by Columbia Pictures. Fantastic edgy new cover design 'Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy has a talent for getting himself shot, stabbed, beaten up and, in this book, blown up by a car bomb...The 1950s atmosphere is a acutely reproduced by Jon Lawton, and there is a ripe stench of corruption all around as lucrative post-war redevelopment gets under way...Classy stuff' Guardian 'His book has a pace and a flavour that is racy, rakish and addictive' Literary Review 'The period atmosphere, illustrated with credible characters, is impeccable and the writing elegantly precise' Susanna Yager, Daily Telegraph
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