# A Lily of the Field: An Inspector Troy Novel - Paperback

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by **John Lawton** (Author)

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--Méeacute;ret 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.  

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** October 18, 2011

## Details

- **Price:** 26.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Espionage, Fiction, Historical, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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