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John Lawton

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John Lawton is a producer/director in television who has spent much of his time interpreting the USA to the English, and occasionally vice versa. He has worked with Gore Vidal, Neil Simon, Scott Turow, Noam Chomsky, Fay Weldon, Harold Pinter and Kathy Acker. He thinks he may well be the only TV director ever to be named in a Parliamentary Bill in the British House of Lords as an offender against taste and balance. He has also been denounced from the pulpit in Mississippi as a `Communist,’ but thinks that less remarkable.

He spent most of the 90s in New York – among other things attending the writers’ sessions at The Actors’ Studio under Norman Mailer – and has visited or worked in more than half the 50 states. Since 2000 he has lived in the ...more

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Average rating: 4.0 · 19,710 ratings · 1,688 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	Black Out (Inspector Troy, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 4,008 ratings — published 1995 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Then We Take Berlin (Joe Wilderness, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 2,565 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Old Flames (Inspector Troy, #2) 3.99 avg rating — 1,444 ratings — published 1996 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unfortunate Englishman (Joe Wilderness, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 1,380 ratings — published 2016 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Lily of the Field (Inspector Troy, #7) 4.12 avg rating — 1,349 ratings — published 2010 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Second Violin (Inspector Troy, #6) 4.13 avg rating — 1,300 ratings — published 2007 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bluffing Mr. Churchill (Inspector Troy #4) 4.10 avg rating — 1,293 ratings — published 2001 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little White Death (Inspector Troy, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 1,219 ratings — published 1998 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hammer to Fall (Joe Wilderness #3) 4.14 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — published 2020 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flesh Wounds (Inspector Troy, #5) 4.14 avg rating — 1,008 ratings — published 2005 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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“Really, when you get to know him Ike’s OK. I mean not grouchy or anything and not too bright. I mean OK for a general – you wouldn’t want him to be President or anything like that.”
― John Lawton, Black Out

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“D’ye know the Black Swan, East India Dock Road?’ Troy shook his head. ‘Bloke found dead in his room. Blood all over the place. Door locked from the inside. A real Sherlock Holmes-er.”
― John Lawton, Black Out

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