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John Lawton

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January 01, 1947 in Washington, The United States

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John Lawton is an author of crime/espionage stories primarily set in England during World War II and the Cold War].

Born in Washington in 1947, Lawton began his working life as a housepainter and gardener in the early 1960s. Settling in England he had a brief and unspectacular career in London publishing and by the mid 1980s was a documentary producer at the newly-created Channel 4. In 1993 he settled in New York, and in 1995 won a WH Smith award for his third book Black Out[1]. He went back into television in England in 1997, and by 1999 had dropped off the TV and books map completely. He returned in 2001 with Riptide, which was snapped up by Columbia Pictures. For most of the 21st century, so far, he has tended to be elusive and itinerant,...more

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Average rating: 3.76 · 777 ratings · 185 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Black Out (Inspector Troy, #1) 3.56 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 1995 — 15 editions	My rating:
	A Lily of the Field 3.86 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Second Violin 3.73 avg rating — 108 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Old Flames (Inspector Troy, #2) 3.91 avg rating — 86 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Bluffing Mr. Churchill (Inspector Troy, #4) 3.80 avg rating — 92 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 8 editions	My rating:
	A Little White Death (Inspector Troy, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Flesh Wounds: An Inspector Troy Novel (Inspector Troy, #5) 3.98 avg rating — 56 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Sweet Sunday 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Silk Scents & Spice: Tracing the World's Great Trade Routes: The Silk Road, the Spice Route, the Incense Trail 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	1963 Five Hundred Days 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1993	My rating:

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Inspector Troy (7 books)
by John Lawton

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“The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.”
― John Lawton

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