Second Violin - Brossura

Lawton, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0297852647 ISBN 13: 9780297852643

Casa editrice: W&N, 2007

Riassunto

The sixth Troy novel. March 1938. The Germans take Vienna without a shot being fired. Covering Austria for the English press is a young journalist named Rod Troy. Back home his younger brother is joins the CID as a detective-constable. November 1938. Kristallnacht. The Jews leave Vienna - Sigmund Freud with an American escort on a sleeper train, Josef Hummel tied to the underside of a boxcar. June 1940. Sergeant Troy is seconded to Special Branch to help in the round-up of 'enemy' aliens, among whom are Hummel and his brother Rod. Rod and Hummel are interned on the Isle of Man ... meanwhile a lunatic is killing Jews in the East End of London. Troy asks for time off from Special Branch to return to his true calling ... Murder.
London is now under siege, from German bombers, from its own prejudices and paranoias.
Is London any better than Vienna?

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Descrizione del libro

The making of Troy, John Lawton's unconventional London policeman

L'autore

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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• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0297852647
• ISBN 13: 9780297852643
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 432