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John Lawton has written eight Inspector Troy thrillers, three previous Joe Wilderness novels, a standalone novel and a volume of history. His Inspector Troy novels have been named best books of the year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and New York Times Book Review. He lives in Derbyshire, England
Lawton's reputation as one of the best authors of espionage fiction is burnished by Moscow Exile...all the action and intrigue of an old Len Deighton trilogy * Wall Street Journal * Another virtuoso performance in what continues to be an espionage series of uncommon depth and breadth . . . Lawton infuses the entire troupe with sparkling life, using crackling dialogue and rapier wit to bring a Technicolor sheen to the moral ambiguity of the Cold War * Booklist (starred review) * [A] lush historic novel . . . The resilience and determination of his Charlie, Coky and eventually Joe Wilderness provide a strong portrait of Lawton's real-life sense of espionage: calculating, well-armed, self-defined * New York Journal of Books *
