by JohnLawton (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 560
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Oct 2008
ISBN 10: 075382261X
ISBN 13: 9780753822616
Book Overview: Reissued with a fantastic new cover look under the Phoenix imprint There is a strong market for high-quality historical crime fiction 'Unputdownable narrative of spying, sexual intrigue, political scandal and murder...a haunting novel, transcending the bounds of genre fiction' A.N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph 'Flawlessly recreates the tensions of a societyteetering on the brink of a social and sexual revolutionLawton's trick is to take the threads of history and weave them into his own tapestry' The Times