{"product_id":"9781611855159","title":"Friends and Traitors","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Lawton, John (Author) \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFiction \u0026amp; related items\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 January 2019 by Grove Press \/ Atlantic Monthly Press as part of 'the Inspector Troy' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 352 pages\u003cbr\u003e131 x 198 x 23 | 246g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA newest novel in the Inspector Troy series, a tale of Cold War spy dealings centred around Guy Burgess. For readers of John le Carre, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs he fights to prove his innocence, Troy discovers that Burgess is not the only ghost who has returned to haunt him...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43924946223363,"sku":"9781611855159","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781611855159_44fac2a0-2e68-4f25-8e7e-569034871d5b.jpg?v=1731348180","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781611855159","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}