Black Out

By John Lawton,

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John Lawton’s debut novel—first published by Viking in 1995, and now being reissued by Grove Press—is a stunning, war-time thriller that cements his place among the greatest crime writers of our era. The first of the Inspector Troy novels, Black Out singularly captures the realities of wartime London, weaving them…

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This book is the the first in a gripping and atmospheric wartime thriller series featuring London policeman, Detective Sergeant Troy.

Troy has an unusual background for a police officer in that he is the son of an immensely rich Russian emigré businessman. In this story, set in 1944, a man’s severed arm is found on a bomb site. Troy investigates and discovers the arm belongs to a refugee German scientist working for British intelligence.

This is a marvelous thriller from a writer once selected in a Time all-time list of detective authors to savor. 

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