John Lawton
Author
Series
Joe Wilderness novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's London, the swinging sixties, and by all rights MI6 spy Joe Wilderness should be having as good a time as James Bond. But alas, his postings are more grim than glamorous. Luckily, Wilderness has a knack for doing well for himself even in the most unpromising postings, though this has gotten him into hot water in the past. A coffee-smuggling gig in divided Berlin was a steady money-maker but things went pear-shaped when he had to smuggle a spy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Directed by MI6 to Berlin in 1963 to negotiate a delicate prisoner exchange on either side of the wall, Joe Wilderness covertly plans to use the operation to make a little something extra on the side, with unexpected results.
3) Moscow exile
Author
Series
Joe Wilderness novel volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From "quite possibly the best historical novelist we have" (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, DC to a KGB prison near Moscow's Kremlin. In Moscow Exile, John Lawton departs from his usual stomping grounds of England and Germany to jump across the Atlantic to Washington, DC, in the fragile postwar period where the Red Scare is growing noisier every day. Charlotte is a British expatriate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is not looking forward to a Continental trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate being fifty so instead takes his entire family on "the Grand Tour" for his fifty-first birthday: Paris, Siena, Florence, Vienna, Amsterdam. Restaurants, galleries and concert halls. But Frederick Troy...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In 1941, Calvin Cormack teams up with MI5 officer Walter Stilton to find Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy masquerading as an SS officer, but Cormack must enlist the aid of Sergeant Troy of Scotland Yard after his partner turns up dead.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In 1963, freelance private investigator Joe Wilderness, a former MI6 agent and black market con artist, agrees to one last Berlin scam, which involves smuggling people, and brings his World War II gang of accomplices together once again.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Karel Szabo, who is recruited by the Americans to help build the atomic bomb.
11) Sweet Sunday
Author
Publisher
Pgw
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Chasing a draft dodger in the turbulent summer of 1969, private eye Turner Raines is embroiled in the death of his oldest friend, whose demise is overshadowed by unresolved family dynamics and secrets from Vietnam.