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A Lily Of The Field (2010)

by John Lawton(Favorite Author)

3.87 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0802119565 (ISBN13: 9780802119568)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

series

Inspector Troy

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 feel stupid. I finished it just to prove I was not. It was a spy novel and I did not get it. O well I guess I like my detectives simple and straight up. Looking forward to the latest Slaughter!!
review 2: John Lawton is a joy to read, mostly because he's extremely careful to chronicle the time period. In this case he's writing about post-World War II London, and he captures the grey mediocrity of the emerging welfare state that the Labor government built in the wreckage of their old wo... morerld. The received pronunciation, extra servants, and regimental ties are disappearing, but they are not disappearing enough. In the midst of this dispassionate depiction of that world, Freddy Troy tries to find the murderer of a nobody in the subway who turns out to be someone to Russian intelligence. In a world of move and counter-move, Troy tries to solve the murder while having his world disrupted. A fascinating and moving book, as good as Old Flames. less

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