A Lily Of The Field Av John (Author) Lawton

<p><b>Written by ''a sublimely elegant historical novelist as addictive as crack'' (<i>Daily Telegraph</i>), t</b><b>he Inspector Troy series </b><b>is perfect for fans of Le Carré, Philip Kerr and Alan Furst.</b><br><br>Vienna, 1934. Ten-year-old cello prodigy Meret Voytek becomes a pupil of concert pianist Viktor Rosen, a Jew in exile from Germany.<br><br>The Isle of Man, 1940. An interned Hungarian physicist is recruited for the Manhattan Project in Los Alomos, building the atom bomb for the Americans.<br><br>Auschwitz, 1944. Meret is imprisoned but is saved from certain death to play the cello in the camp orchestra. She is playing for her life.<br><br>London, 1948. Viktor Rosen wants to relinquish his Communist Party membership after thirty years. His comrade and friend reminds him that he committed for life...<br><br>These seemingly unconnected strands all collide forcefully with a brazen murder on a London Underground platform, revealing an intricate web of secrecy and deception which Detective Frederick Troy must untangle.</p>