Friends and traitors
Lawton, John, 1949-2019
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It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is not looking forward to a Continental trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate being fifty so instead takes his entire family on 'the Grand Tour' for his fifty-first birthday: Paris, Siena, Florence, Vienna, Amsterdam. Restaurants, galleries and concert halls. But Frederick Troy never gets to Amsterdam. After a concert in Vienna he is approached by an old friend whom he has not seen for years - Guy Burgess, a spy for the Soviets, who says something extraordinary: 'I want to come home.' Troy dumps the problem on MI5 who send an agent to debrief Burgess - but when the man is gunned down only yards from the embassy, the whole plan unravels with alarming speed and Troy finds himself a suspect.
Main title:
Friends and traitors / John Lawton.
Author:
Lawton, John, 1949-, author
Imprint:
New York : Grove Press, 2019.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
ISBN:
9781611855159 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
LC class:
PR6062.A938
Local class:
FT PbkF
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2396546