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Friends and Traitors (Inspector Troy, #8)

John Lawton

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Aug 11, 2017 Cold War Conversations Podcast rated it really liked it

Good mixture is espionage fact and fiction.

Combining fact with fiction Lawton successfully describes the double life of spy Burgess alongside the fictional Troy.

This is my first outing with Troy and as a result will be seeking out the rest of the series.

Lawton writes well with knowledge of the period whilst keeping a good pace and strong characters throughout.

Recommended for anyone interested in the Cambridge Five and good espionage/crime fiction.

Thanks to Edelweiss for the review copy. I was ...more

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Oct 28, 2017 Nooilforpacifists rated it really liked it

Shelves: cold-war-fiction, thriller, 20th-century-british-fiction

John Lawton takes 3/4th of a book to get the plot moving, but once it does, the pulse races.

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Sep 25, 2020 Hans Ostrom rated it it was amazing

This is somewhat of a sequel to A Lily of The Field, as some characters reappear. But mostly it blends the real tale of traitor Guy Burgess with fictional murders and betrayals Troy must solve. I like this the best of the Troy novels and enjoyed all the threads--jazz, classical music, homophobia, class struggle, the Cold War, and so on. Enormously enjoyable.

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