Review
'Worthy of le Carre at his best' Allan Massie, Scotsman 'Wonderful - the engrossing essence of this novel is the morality of the individual' Gitta Sereny, Times 'Such a combination of narrative mastery, psychological insight and moral vision suggests a John le Carre in the making' Francis King, Telegraph "It is a wonderful book, it has a timeless quality and really should go on to become a classic. It reminds me of the early works of John le Carre, but captures much more accurately the internal workings of ordinary people, and shows how, just by bumping into each other, they can be utterly transformed, and go on to extraordinarily brave and cowardly acts. It pointed out so well how the threads of those small day by day choices made by us, or for us, become intertwined and grow so quickly into the great net that, with hindsight, we call history...one of the most interesting writers I have come across in a long time" - Paul Britton, author of The Jigsaw Man "The Sixth Lamentation is a meticulously-plotted, cat's cradle of a mystery with the interwoven stories pulled as taut as a piano-wire. The setting of Paris during the war is invoked to chilling effect. William Brodrick has written the first of what I hope will be a series of especially literate thrillers" - Martha Grimes "It's indeed rare to find such a masterful blending of sharp suspense and literary resonance as we see in The Sixth Lamentation. Brodrick has produced a truly compelling novel" - Jeffery Deaver, author of The Vanished Man and The Stone Monkey 'Absorbing and unusually accomplished...The plot has a complexity worthy of le Carre at his best, ingeniously worked out, and surprising... It has the merits of a work of art, whatever its provenance: a remarkable first novel' - Allan Massie, The Scotsman 'The characters are multi-layered and compelling, the storyline is gripping, the facts have a ring of truth to them, and more importantly, the book will remain with you after the reading is completed' -Historical Novels Review
John Dugdale, Sunday Times
'This is a remarkable novel, and puts Brodrick in the frame for prize-winning'
by William Brodrick
by Andrew Taylor
by Hilary Mantel
by Stieg Larsson
