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One of today’s top historical espionage writers, considered “as good as Le Carré” (Chicago Tribune) and “a master” (Rocky Mountain News), John Lawton adds another spellbinding thriller to his Inspector Troy series with Second Violin. The sixth installment in the series, Lawton’s new novel opens in 1938 with Europe on the brink of war. In London, Frederick Troy, newly promoted to the prestigious murder squad at Scotland Yard, is put in charge of rounding up a list of German and Italian “enemy aliens” that also includes Frederick’s brother, Rod, who learns upon receiving an internment letter that he was born in Austria despite having grown up in England. Hundreds of men are herded by train to a neglected camp on the Isle of Man. And as the bombs start falling on London, a murdered rabbi is found, then another, and another. Amid great war, murder is what matters. Moving from the Nazi-infested alleys of prewar Vienna to the bombed-out streets of 1940 London, and featuring an extraordinary cast of characters, Lawton’s latest thriller is a suspenseful and intelligent novel, as good a spy story as it is an historical narrative.
- Sales Rank: #130741 in eBooks
- Published on: 2009-09-15
- Released on: 2009-09-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Lawton's engrossing sixth entry but the first chronologically in his Inspector Troy thriller series (Black Out, etc.) chronicles the major events leading up to WWII--Germany's annexation of Austria, Chamberlain's peace efforts, Kristallnacht--while providing a disturbing picture of anti-Semitism and class frictions in England at the time. As part of Scotland Yard's murder squad, Insp. Frederick Troy investigates a series of slayings of London rabbis, but various subplots equally intrigue, notably one that unfolds in an internment camp for Germans, Jews and foreigners--including Troy's Austrian-born brother, Rod--rounded up after Britain's entry into the war. At one point, Troy and a lady friend discover the "aphrodisia of war" in Hyde Park, a spot popular with couples for copulation during the blitz. Lawton does a fine job of incorporating such lesser known period details into his saga, though some readers may find he relies too often on deus ex machina for their taste. (Nov.)
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Review
'Lawton's writing is hypnotic...he deserves to be ranked with the best' Birmingham Post. 'Unputdownable narrative of spying, sexual intrigue, political scandal and murder...a haunting novel, transcending the bounds of genre fiction' A.N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph. 'Flawlessly recreates the tensions of a society, teetering on the brink of a social and sexual revolution. Lawton's trick is to take the threads of history and weave them into his own tapestry' The Times.
About the Author
John Lawton has spent the last ten years making television programmes, mostly for Channel 4, and editing volumes of H. G. Wells' work. He is the author of the Detective-Sergeant Troy series of crime novels. He lives in Derbyshire.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
A stunner of a read
By W. Salomon
I received a pre-publication copy of this book amongst six. Being in the US, I had never seen Lawton's work, so I picked it, and was immediately sucked into the time and place. Lawton's characters are human, well-developed and fascinating; his descriptions of setting and events at the time superb. Having a real affection for the UK, I was immediately drawn into the dialogs, at times with dictionary in hand. Be assured, I will read the rest - if I can find them here!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Inspector Troy at the Beginning, 1938-1940
By Douglas S. Wood
Second Violin is the sixth book in John Lawton's Inspector Troy series (see for example, Bluffing Mr. Churchill (Frederick Troy Novels)). The events in this book occur chronologically earlier than the previous books in the series. (For that reason, I read this book first, which may or may not be the best way to enjoy this book). The story begins in Austria with Hitler's Anschluss in 1938 and ends with the Battle of Britain in the autumn of 1940.
Frederick Troy is a sergeant in Scotland Yard's elite murder squad and Second Violin tells the reader how got there. Troy is the son of newspaper lord and Russian émigré Alexei Troy. He could have done anything (or nothing at all, for that matter), but he chose to become a beat cop. The denizens of Stepney Green, his patrol beat, see him as a toff out slumming.
Frederick Troy's brother, Roderick, is a foreign correspondent for their father's paper. He witnesses the horrible events of Kristallnacht in Austria before being put on a plane and sent packing by the Nazis. While brother Frederick is assigned police duty rounding up aliens for internment, Rod he finds himself more directly involved in the camps than anyone imagined possible. Freddie manages to take on a murder investigation when three rabbis turn up dead.
In perhaps the book's strongest element, Lawton examines the brutal treatment of Jews in Austria through one Josef Hummel, tailor, and the subsequent rounding up and internment of aliens, including not only Hummel, but also long-time London residents who turn out to have been born in a foreign country.
While I recommend reading this book and intend to read other books in the series, I cannot give Second Violin five full stars. Lawton jams too many disparate story lines and a few stand alone bits (like Sigmund Freud) that leave the reader feeling a bit disjointed. (I should also add that it may be that some of the things that seem like loose ends, but may not be so untidy if one has read the previous books in the series). I also found that reading this book made a nice companion for the most excellent Foyle's War: Set 1 (The German Woman / The White Feather / A Lesson In Murder / Eagle Day) TV series.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
One Book but Two Stories
By Grey Wolffe
The first half of this "Troy" prequel is a well written historical narrative of what went on in Germany just prior to the start of WW2 and Vienna just before and after the "Anschluss". Mostly it centers on a group of middle class tailors who are longtime Austrian Jews. It also follows the changing opinions of the different English classes as they debate among themselves the 'surrender' of Czechoslovakia to Hitler by Chamberlain to try and prevent the coming war. It's starkly brought home in the discussion that go on in the Troy and Stilton households. Lawton does a fine job of trying to separate out the 'bad' Nazis from the 'good' ones and show the fear that a mob with power behind it can create (i.e. the Brownshirts of the SA) as the 'good people' look away.
The second half is more of a pulling together of a lot of threads that show up in the previous five books. This being the sixth book published but the first in chronological order. We get a sense of Troy's relationship with his father and brother and the families ambivalence if not downright displeasure of Troy becoming a 'copper'. The problem is that the mystery of the murders that is supposed to hold the second half together is very threadbare. After the third murder you get the sense of what's going on and why; and the sequence leading up to the death of the murderer (without revealing who it was) is like the air going out of a balloon versus an exploding firecracker.
It's as if Lawton, while sitting in his little hilltop cottage in Derbyshire, "have I made any mistakes when I've written about what happened to Troy in his early days or presaged something that would happen later?". OK, "maybe I should write a 'first book' so as to fill out Troy's time as a constable and his start at Scotland Yard". Well it reads just like a full resume after you've read the summary, but that doesn't make it a good novel. Considering all the room between some of the books he's still got a lot more to explain, but, I'd rather just have some good 'thrillers' and less biographical verbiage.
Zeb Kantrowitz
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