Blue Rondo - Brossura

Lawton, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0753818949 ISBN 13: 9780753818947

Casa editrice: Phoenix, 2006

Riassunto

London in the late 1950s. The East End is ripe for redevelopment; the property sharks are buying up the bombsites and Victorian terraces; corruption is rife; Macmillan is PM of a shaky Tory government; Gaitskell expects to succeed as the first Labour PM for almost a decade to the delight of Troy's brothers, one an MP, the other a Fleet Street editor. Troy's last big case was to protect the Russian leaders, Bulganin and Khrushchev, on their first visit to Britain in 1956. Now a series of increasingly sadistic murders occurs on his old East End patch; a wartime girlfriend, who became a GI bride - since married to a Democratic Presidential candidate - reappears into his life. Nor is she the only woman to occupy his bed. When 'Ike', the retiring US President, makes a farewell visit to London, all Troy's worlds combine in a frightening cresendo of corruption and violence.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

The long-awaited return of Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy against the backdrop of London's East End increasingly dominated by the new post-war gangs of the late 1950s

L'autore:

John Lawton was a TV producer, and is now a full-time writer. He lives in a hilltop village in the Derbyshire Pennines.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Phoenix
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0753818949
• ISBN 13: 9780753818947
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352