Books by John Lawton
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review 1: A mix of history with a dash of spy thriller, this book is mostly set in post WWII Berlin. A young Cockney thief is sent to Berlin to spy. While there he sets up a black market ring. If this had been the main plot, I would have enjoyed the book far more. However, the introduction...
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review 1: Not my cup of tea this book. Although I found it an interesting period to read about the years after WW2. I did not care for Troy nor the other characters really. The brief description of Auschwitz did not help either. I had trouble understanding half of the novel so that made me...
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review 1: This excellent book in the Inspector Troy series is in many ways more of a pure historical novel than a detective thriller. Ranging from pre-war Vienna to Auschwitz to Los Alamos to London the story embraces inter alia the genocide of the Jews, the horrors of the Nazis, the recr...