John Lawton's Frederick Troy novels including BLACK OUT, OLD FLAMES, A LITTLE WHITE DEATH and RIPTIDE have been bought for filming by Columbia Pictures. Fantastic edgy new cover design 'Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy has a talent for getting himself shot, stabbed, beaten up and, in this book, blown up by a car bomb...The 1950s atmosphere is a acutely reproduced by Jon Lawton, and there is a ripe stench of corruption all around as lucrative post-war redevelopment gets under way...Classy stuff' Guardian 'His book has a pace and a flavour that is racy, rakish and addictive' Literary Review 'The period atmosphere, illustrated with credible characters, is impeccable and the writing elegantly precise' Susanna Yager, Daily Telegraph
John Lawton was a TV producer, and is now a full-time writer. He lives in a hilltop village in the Derbyshire Pennines.
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