Smoke and Embers
From “one of the best authors of espionage fiction” (Wall Street Journal), a book of deception and money to be made amid the rubble…
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Moscow Exile
From “quite possibly the best historical novelist we have” (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, D.C. to…
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The third Joe Wilderness spy thriller from a master of the genre, moving from icy Finland to tumultuous Cold War Prague, Hammer to Fall…
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“[Friends and Traitors] is a wickedly seductive entertainment and more proof, if anyone needed it, that John Lawton is creating some of our finest,…
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The second book in the new series featuring Joe Wilderness, a portrait of 1960s Berlin and Khrushchev’s Moscow, centering around the exchange of two…
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“A wonderfully written and generally wise book that will thrill readers with an interest in WWII and the early Cold War era.” —Publishers Weekly…
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“Smart and gracefully written . . . It has been Lawton’s achievement to capture, in first-rate popular fiction, the courage and drama—and the widespread tomorrow-we-may-die exuberance—of that terrible and thrilling moment in twentieth-century history.” —Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post…
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“A rich mixture of political intrigue and old-fashioned mayhem. . . . Tangled webs of deceit are standard in mysteries, but British author John…
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“John Lawton is so captivating a storyteller that I’d happily hear him out on any subject. . . . Meticulous artistry . . ….
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Set in Vienna, London, and the United States, and spanning 1934 to 1948, John Lawton’s brilliant novel A Lily of the Field follows the…
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