Friends and traitors.
Friends and traitors.
By
:
Lawton, John, 1949-
Publication Date
:
2017
Volume
:
bk. 8
Subject Term
:
Police -- England -- Fiction.
War stories
Genre
:
Mystery fiction.
Historical fiction.
Political fiction.
Series
:
INSPECTOR TROY SERIES ;
INSPECTOR TROY SERIES
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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780802127068
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | ADULT FIC - BASEMENT | Adult Fiction - Basement | FIC LAW | Checked In |