#1 Inspector Troy

Black Out

John Lawton
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As the Luftwaffe makes its last, desperate assaults on the battered city in 1944, Londoners take to the underground shelters amidst the black out. Detective-Sergeant Troy starts with the clue of a neatly dismembered corpse leading him into a world of stateless refugees, military intelligence, and corruption all the way to the top of Allied High Command.
Genres: MysteryHistorical FictionFictionThrillerCrimeWorld War IIHistorical MysteryHistoricalMystery ThrillerEspionage
416 Pages

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