John Lawton is the author of nine novels including A Lily of the Field and Second Violin. A former television producer, Lawton now lives in a remote hilltop village in Derbyshire, England.
"As good as Le Carréeacute;."-Dick Adler, Chicago Tribune
"Uncommonly smart and engrossing . . . If you yearn for stylish,
sophisticated, suspenseful fiction, you need look no further."-The
Washington Post "Le Carré/Furst territory . . .
Unforgettable."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Anyone with an
appreciation for the details of the Cold War has to marvel at a
book that features Scotland Yard, Nikita Krushchev, Guy Burgess,
and a money-laundering scheme centered on Swedish modernist
furniture."-Entertainment Weekly "A smart, well-crafted, very
British book, and Troy is a shrewd and irreverent policeman.. . . .
If Troy is the character at the heart of this novel, its soul is
England as it was during the Cold War years, a country fueled by
paranoia and espionage, overrun with agents and counter-agents,
caught up, as Troy says, in 'an age that specialized in thinking
the unthinkable.'"-USA Today "Lawton, who has a delightful way with
metaphor, sprinkles his yarn with a variety of names that have long
lain dormant in our American memories. . . . Winston Churchill
makes a priceless appearance. . . . Troy is exquisitely drawn. He's
a cynic at heart not because of any dour view of humanity, but
because he's not at home in Britain or the Soviet Union."--The
Boston Globe "Some books are at least as important to life as
eating. . . . Old Flames is a book that I would forgo eating to
read again. . . . Convoluted without being complicated and fast
paced while remaining completely believable, Old Flames is the
consummate novel about the Cold War."--The Rocky Mountain News
"Mesmerizing. . . . Dryly funny, smartly written, slightly macabre
and richly evocative of its Cold War setting. Lawton's got a knack
for nuanced character." --The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer "A
rich mixture of political intrigue and old-fashioned mayhem. . . .
Tangled webs of deceit are standard in mysteries, but British
author John Lawton takes the idea to nearly Shakespearean
heights."--Baltimore Sun "Scorchingly clever. . . . An intriguing
synthesis of genres. . . . Part Len Deighton, part John le Carré,
part P.D. James, and all original. Lawton paints a vivid background
of time and place, populates it with unusual and interesting people
. . . and entangles them in a deliciously intricate game of life,
death, betrayals and lies, with the fate of the world hanging in
the balance. The result is a ripping good read that celebrates two
20th-century British literary traditions propelling them into the
21st century."--CNN.com "[A] complex, evocative tale. . . . Lawton
has created an effective genre-bending novel that is at once a
cerebral thriller and an uproarious, deliciously English
spoof."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A splash of Greene, a
twist of Deighton, a small measure of history--Lawton has produced
a thrilling cocktail. . . . The cast of characters--both borrowed
and invented--is as rich, rounded and eccentrically plausible as
any in recent thriller fiction. Great stuff."--The Times (London)
"An early candidate for Thumping Good Thriller of the Year . . . No
angst, no darkness, just the joy of a plot racing along in
overdrive."--Time Out (London)
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