John Lawton’s debut novel: a stunning, WWII thriller introducing
Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant Troy. “A delightful, intelligent,
involving book” (Scott Turow). The first of the Inspector Troy
novels, Black Out singularly captures the realities of wartime
London, weaving them into a riveting drama that encapsulates the
uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar era. London, 1944.
While the Luftwaffe makes its final assault on the already battered
British capital, Londoners rush through the streets, seeking
underground shelter in the midst of the city’s black out. When the
panic subsides, other things begin to surface along with London’s
war-worn citizens . . . A severed arm is discovered by a group
of children playing at an East End bomb site, and when Scotland
Yard’s Det. Sgt. Frederick Troy arrives at the scene, it becomes
apparent that the dismembered body is not the work of a V-1 rocket.
After Troy manages to link the severed arm to the disappearance of a
refugee scientist from Nazi Germany, America’s newest intelligence
agency, the OSS, decides to get involved. The son of a titled Russian
émigré, Troy is forced to leave the London he knows and enter a
corrupt world of bloody consequences, stateless refugees, and
mysterious women as he unearths a chain of secrets leading straight to
the Allied high command. “An exciting, fast-moving mystery set
against the backdrop of the London blitz in 1944.” —Booklis
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ISBN
9780802195845
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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