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Title: A Lily of the Field
Condition: New
EAN: 9781611855913
ISBN: 9781611855913
Edition: Main
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 04/12/2012
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 24mm
Item Weight: 274g
Author: John Lawton
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1611855918
Description:

Written by 'a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack' (Daily Telegraph), the Inspector Troy series is perfect for fans of Le Carré, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.

Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany.

The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos, building the atom bomb for the Americans.

Auschwitz, 1944. Meret is imprisoned but is saved from certain death to play the cello in the camp orchestra. She is playing for her life.

London, 1948. Viktor Rosen wants to relinquish his Communist Party membership after thirty years. His comrade and friend reminds him that he committed for life...

These seemingly unconnected strands all collide forcefully with a brazen murder on a London Underground platform, revealing an intricate web of secrecy and deception which Detective Frederick Troy must untangle.

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