John Lawton: 17 books

Friends and Traitors marks Lawton’s return to his most popular series, the Inspector Troy novels, which have sold over 100,000 copies in the States alone. Friends and Traitors has a fantastic plot, centering around disgraced spy Guy Burgess, incorporating the anti-homosexuality laws of the...

Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard returns in “one of the best thrillers of the year” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review). Spanning the tumultuous years 1934 to 1948, John Lawton’s A Lily of the Field is a brilliant historical thriller from a master of the form. The book follows...

“[Lawton’s] work stands head and shoulders above most other contemporary thrillers, earning those comparisons to Le Carré.” —The Boston Globe The latest novel from the master spy novelist John Lawton follows Inspector Troy, now Scotland Yard’s chief detective, deep into a scandal...

**As London braces for WWII, a string of murdered rabbis draws Inspector Troy into a mystery that “**sets pulses racing and the jaded responses tingling” (The Irish Times). One of today’s top historical espionage writers, considered “as good as Le Carré” (Chicago Tribune) and “a...

**“A stylish spy thriller” of postwar Berlin—the first in a thrilling new series from the acclaimed author of the Inspector Troy novels (The New York Times Book Review).   John Wilfrid Holderness—aka Joe Wilderness—has gone from young Cockney cardsharp surviving the London Blitz to MI6...

A British agent is drawn to Berlin’s bridge of spies in this “superlative Cold War espionage story” from the author of the acclaimed Inspector Troy series (The Seattle Times).   It’s the summer of 1961, and the inscrutable Khrushchev is developing plans for something that could change the...

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...

1969 is a time of turmoil and murder for a New York PI in this “twisty, sometimes terrifying” novel from the author of the acclaimed Inspector Troy Novels (Kirkus Reviews).   New York PI Turner Raines is a has-been—and the things he has been include a broken civil rights worker, a second-rate...

Scotland Yard’s Sergeant Troy returns in a WWII thriller praised as an absorbing blend of espionage and detection” (The Denver Post). It is 1941. Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an SS officer, has just fled Germany with Hitler’s henchmen on his trail. Stahl’s...

Londres, 1944. Alors que la Luftwaffe lance ses derniers bombardements sur Londres, le détective Troy enquête sur le corps démembré d'un réfugié allemand qui le mènera tout droit jusqu'au haut commandement des forces Alliées. Londres, 1944. La Luftwaffe donne son assaut final sur la capitale...

Scotland Yard’s Inspector Troy returns in a Cold War spy thriller hailed as “stylish, sophisticated, suspenseful . . . A fictional tour de force” (Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post**).**   In April 1956, at the height of the Cold War, Khrushchev and Bulganin, leaders of the Soviet Union,...

A serial killer stalks post-WWII London in a gritty detective novel featuring Scotland Yard’s Inspector Troy. An old flame has returned to Troy’s life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty’s amorous liaisons with...

L'Inspecteur Troy, devenu commissaire de Scotland Yard, est pris dans un scandale politique impliquant drogue, prostitution et espionnage 1963. L'Angleterre est un pays au bord de l'implosion et la vieille garde, choquée par le comportement d'une génération qui n'a pas connu la guerre, se prépare...

Une enquête de l'inspecter Frederik Troy de Scotland Yard, pris en pleine Guerre froide dans un tir croisé entre MI6 et KGB, sur les traces d'un amour perdu. En Avril 1956, à l'apogée de la guerre froide, Khrouchtchev et Boulganine, les dirigeants de l'Union soviétique, sont en Grande-Bretagne...