- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Orion (7 Feb 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0752876236
- ISBN-13: 978-0752876238
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 889,975 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Secret service agents, gangsters, good honest cockneys and the blitz combine to make an immensely pleasurable read. Laura Wilson writes beautifully, creates characters we believe in and applies a vivid imagination to well-researched facts ... convincing and exciting.' (Jessica Mann LITERARY REVIEW )
'Laura Wilson's earlier novel The Lover, set in wartime London, was rightly praised for its evocation of place and period, and she is equally successful with Stratton's War. This is not simply a question of period detail ... it is deep in the language of the novel, in the speech of the characters, even in the narrative voice. Everything sounds authentic.' (Heather O'Donaghue TLS )
'Laura Wilsons' most ambitious book ... the city's wartime atmosphere is impeccably created ...' (Susannah Yager SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'If you half close your eyes Bulldog Drummond could bowl into this cracking plot.' (DAILY SPORT )
'Big, fat tale of Home Front shenanigans ... Laura Wilson is just as concerned with depicting London in the Blitz - which she does with impressive,impressionistic detail - as with providing a jiucy mystery' (Mark Sanderson EVENING STANDARD )
'not only an outstanding crime story, but a wonderful historical novel.' (Mike Ripley BIRMINGHAM POST )
'Wilson's seventh novel is atmospheric and exciting ... a great book.' (Peter Guttridge OBSERVER )
'This enjoyable, intelligent book is based part on fact. The Right Club existed; so did the spymasters and agents that inspired [the] characters.' (THE ECONOMIST )
'Laura Wilson specialises in acutely observed psychological thirller ... This promises to be an exceptional series ... highly recommended.' (Andrew Taylor THE SPECTATOR )
'Laura Wilson's earlier novel The Lover, set in wartime London, was rightly praised for its evocation of place and period, and she is equally successful with Stratton's War. This is not simply a question of period detail ... it is deep in the language of the novel, in the speech of the characters, even in the narrative voice. Everything sounds authentic.' (Heather O'Donaghue TLS )
'Laura Wilsons' most ambitious book ... the city's wartime atmosphere is impeccably created ...' (Susannah Yager SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'If you half close your eyes Bulldog Drummond could bowl into this cracking plot.' (DAILY SPORT )
'Big, fat tale of Home Front shenanigans ... Laura Wilson is just as concerned with depicting London in the Blitz - which she does with impressive,impressionistic detail - as with providing a jiucy mystery' (Mark Sanderson EVENING STANDARD )
'not only an outstanding crime story, but a wonderful historical novel.' (Mike Ripley BIRMINGHAM POST )
'Wilson's seventh novel is atmospheric and exciting ... a great book.' (Peter Guttridge OBSERVER )
'This enjoyable, intelligent book is based part on fact. The Right Club existed; so did the spymasters and agents that inspired [the] characters.' (THE ECONOMIST )
'Laura Wilson specialises in acutely observed psychological thirller ... This promises to be an exceptional series ... highly recommended.' (Andrew Taylor THE SPECTATOR )
Heather O'Donaghue, TLS
'Laura Wilson's earlier novel The Lover, set in wartime London, was rightly praised for its evocation of place and period, and she is equally successful with Stratton's War. This is not simply a question of period detail ... it is deep in the language of the novel, in the speech of the characters, even in the narrative voice. Everything sounds authentic.'
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Spies In The Blackout,
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This is a lengthy, intricate and necessarily leisurely read. It is also a very absorbing one. Wartime London amidst the bombs and blackout makes a bleak but graphic canvas for murder, nascent Fascism and subversive intrigue. The two protagonists, Stratton and Diana - robust policeman and refined Secret Service recruit (loosely based on real life agent Joan Miller) - are believable and sympathetically drawn, and their widely differing milieux realistically portrayed. Indeed, one of the strengths of the novel is the way that Laura Wilson collates and blends the various professional fields, domestic contexts and social strata. The suave and seamy, the urbane and humdrum, crisp ruthlessness and crude thuggery are deftly manipulated to produce a thriller of compelling realism. The pace may be leisurely but the prose is delivered with clarity, style and punchy humour; and the auxiliary characters - such as M I 5 chief Forbes-James, or Diana's distasteful husband - are sharply defined. Blackmail, espionage, illicit sex, unexplained deaths - yes, these are the classic ingredients of crime fiction; but set against and woven into the heightened ethos of the London Blitz, they take on an additional frisson. Set in a world of complex ambiguity, the novel's ending is appropriately oblique and prepares the reader for fresh developments.
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Stratton's War,
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A very complex plot and suitably confusing for a novel involving the secret service. Nice ambiguous ending as well.
The story starts with a simple, apparently, death and becomes more and more of a tangled web as the investigation by the one police officer who did not accept the coroner's suicide verdict continues. At the same time the british intelligence service is infiltrating the Hitler appeasing group of the establishment. Eventually the two strands of investigation become entwined.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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A mystery set in war-torn London,
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DI Ted Stratton is a policeman working in central London in 1940. He is married to Jenny and their two children have been sent out of London. for safety. His home life is happy apart from the constant entreaties from his wife, which he is beginning to dread, to bring back the children from the country as she misses them. His extended family leave something to be desired, but we all have the same problems in this area. He is called to investigate the death of silent screen star Mable Morgan who has been found dead impaled on railing outside her flat. The verdict is suicide, but Ted is not so sure, and against his superiors advice he starts asking questions. On the other side of the tracks we meet Diana Calthrop, a tall elegant blonde who is recruited into MI5 working with senior official Sir Neviile Apse. Diana meets handsome Claude Ventriss and against her better judgement and her colleagues advice, is attracted by Claude. Diana is on sticky ground all round, she is married to Guy, who is serving abroad, but unlike Ted Stratton her marriage is not happy, and with her home life scrutinised by her mother-in-law, and a job that is by its very nature secretive, she really has no one she can trust. As Ted delves further into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mable Morgan he finds links to the criminal underworld that in turn lead him to Diana's secret world, and thus their paths cross. A brilliant story following two different walks of life set across the backdrop of war-torn London. ------ Lizzie Hayes
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