by JohnLawton (Author)
The Blitz, London 1944 - as the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners take to the shelters once again and eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. The victim is German and it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary murder. For Russian emigre Detective-Sergeant Troy it is the start of a manhunt which will lead him into a world of stateless refugees, military intelligence and corruption in high places. A manhunt in which Troy is both the hunter and the hunted.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 22 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0753822601
ISBN 13: 9780753822609
Book Overview: Reissued with a fantastic new cover look under the Phoenix imprint alongside John Lawton's new hardback, Second Violin This is a strong market for high-quality historical crime fiction Praise for BLACK OUT: 'Wartime London is powerfully imagined and skilfully portrayed' Evening Standard 'Wonderfully captures the atmosphere of wartime London ... original and entertaining' Robert Harris, author of Fatherland 'Powerful and funny ... Set in the London Blitz, it sucks you into its own entirely convincing world of bull-nosed Morrises, dank basement offices and deserted bombsites' The Times