| Edition |
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition |
| Phys Descr |
341 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Lawton, John, 1949-
Inspector Troy thriller
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| Summary |
"It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is not looking forward to a Continental trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate being fifty so instead takes his entire family on "the Grand Tour" for his fifty-first birthday: Paris, Siena, Florence, Vienna, Amsterdam. Restaurants, galleries and concert halls. But Frederick Troy never gets to Amsterdam. After a concert in Vienna he is approached by an old friend whom he has not seen for years--Guy Burgess, a spy for the Soviets, who says something extraordinary: "I want to come home." Troy dumps the problem on MI5 who send an agent to de-brief Burgess--but the man is gunned down only yards from the embassy, and after that, the whole plan unravels with alarming speed and Troy finds himself a suspect. As he fights to prove his innocence, Troy finds that Burgess is not the only ghost who returns to haunt him"-- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Troy, Frederick (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
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| Other Form |
Online version: Lawton, John, author. Friends and traitors First American hardcover edition. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017 9780802189219 (DLC) 2017024103 |
| OCLC # |
987491686 |
| ISBN # |
9780802127068 |
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0802127061 |
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