Synopses & Reviews
In the tradition of John le Carré, Eric Ambler, and more recently, Joseph Kanon, Black Out is a stunning wartime thriller. As the Luftwaffe makes its last, desperate assaults on the battered city, Londoners take to the underground shelters amidst the black out. Detective-Sergeant Troy starts with the clue of a neatly dismembered corpse leading him into a world of stateless refugees, military intelligence, and corruption all the way to the top of Allied High Command.
Review
A kind of mix of police procedural and espionage thriller... The London of the Blitz...comes alive with...documentary fidelity (Los Angeles Times) Wonderfully captures the atmosphere of wartime London...original and entertaining. (Robert Harris, author of Fatherland)
About the Author
John Lawton has produced television documentaries in England for Channel 4 and PBS.