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Spanning the tumultuous years 1934 to 1948, John Lawton's "A Lily of the Field" is a brilliant historical thriller from a master of the form. The book follows two characters--Meret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel's start, and Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the Isle of Man. In his seventh Inspector Troy novel, Lawton moves seamlessly from Vienna and Auschwitz to the deserts of New Mexico and the rubble-strewn streets of postwar London, following the fascinating parallels of the physicist Szabo and musician Voytek as fate takes each far from home and across the untraditional battlefields of a destructive war to an unexpected intersection at the novel's close. The result, "A Lily of the Field," is Lawton's best book yet, an historically accurate and remarkably written novel that explores the diaspora or two Europeans from the rise of Hitler to the post-atomic age.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Thriller / suspense Espionage & spy thriller

• Full title: Lily of the Field
• Author: John Lawton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780802145468
• ISBN: 0802145469
• ID: 04711824
• Publisher: ATBO
• Weight: 365 g
• Dimensions: 211 × 141 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2011

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