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by John Lawton (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 497 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; New Ed edition (8 Sep 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752808486
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752808482
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 273,964 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Ten years on from BLACK OUT, it is 1956 and the Cold War is at its height. For the first time, Soviet leaders (Bulganin and Khrushchev) visit Britain. The body of a diver is found floating near a russion ship at Portsmouth. Is this the excuse Bulganin and Khrushchev need to storm out and freeze the ColdWar still further? Cheif Inspector Troy, by parentage a Russian speaker, investigates ...


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John Lawton is a degenerating misanthrope who lives in a remote hilltop village in Derbyshire. He is not entirely sure why. He likes T.C. Boyle, Chuck Palahniuk and Cormac McCarthy - and considers the seminal text of our time to be Myron by Gore Vidal. He is keen on the cultivation of the onion and obscure varieties of potato. He hates tories, teachers and travel (in that order) - but loves to visit Arizona, Florence ... New York ...

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A real find, a very original novel., 25 Oct 2000
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I couldn't put this down. Ordinarily the way this book was packaged - spies and thrills and all that guff - I would not have bothered to pick it up. But this writer brings so much more to the hackneyed old cold war plotlines. He bends and shapes recent history into an intriguing tale and rounds it out with flesh and blood, believable characters. Forget the thrills and spills it's the depth of characterisation that'll keep you reading. I'm now going out to buy all the others in the series.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Evocative history with a good crime to solve, 7 Jul 2002
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Sgt Troy develops from Lawton's first novel, Blackout. There is a particularly well written scene where Troy sees Churchill walking down the corridors of the Houses of Parliament - some read this passage as though they were actually there. Lawton has a wonderful character in Troy: unusual and eccentric family; unorthodox life for a London copper and a broad range of colleagues and friends. Pigs don't fly but they must be fed; and the motorcycle maniac helps out.

Expect nothing usual from John Lawton and you will be enriched as well as entertained.

This book is cold war at an intense stage.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars His best book - the "perfect" spy novel, 16 Sep 2000
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When the cold war ended what would become ofthe cold war novel? Were the leCarres and Deightons going to out of a job? Well boys, this is the future. The cold war novel has retreated to the past... it's become the historical thriller. This book is loaded with detail, a beautifully drawn picture of the vanished world of the 1950s, rippling with tension, unexpected twists and turns. But the pay-off is in the characters. What woman reader could resist the divine Larissa Tosca? - what woman reader couldn't help but hate the womanizing, cheating lying hero, Chief Inspector Troy? I turned the pages waiting for his come-uppance. Does he get it? Well...that would be telling. Read it for yourself.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Too long
I'm currently reading books set in the 1950s and this one seemed to fit the bill. Unfortunately it's too long winded to be really good. Read more
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3.0 out of 5 stars To catch a spy
Not reaching the heights of his wonderful literary thriller Sweet Sunday, this novel does make an interesting fist of spying and skulduggery in the England of the 1950s... Read more
Published 1 month ago by E. Shaw

2.0 out of 5 stars Cold War Snoozer
awton's second Inspector Troy story (following Black Out), finds the upper class detective in middle-age as the Cold War menaces England in 1956. Read more
Published on 2 May 2003 by A. Ross

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