Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john lawton

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  • CHILDREN′S ERRORS IN MATHEMATICS
    ALICE HANSEN / DOREEN DREWS / JOHN DUDGEON / FIONA LAWTON / LIZ SURTEES
    This practical and popular guide to children’s common errors and misconceptions in primary mathematics is an essential tool for you as a teacher or trainee. It helps you plan for and tackle potential errors and enhances your understanding of the difficulties encountered in mathematical development. Providing guidance on how to identify common misconceptions, it explores how com...

    $949.08

  • BLACK OUT
    JOHN LAWTON
    John Lawton's debut novel: a stunning, WWII thriller introducing Scotland Yard Detective Sergeant Troy. "A delightful, intelligent, involving book" (Scott Turow).   The first of the Inspector Troy novels,  Black Out singularly captures the realities of wartime London, weaving them into a riveting drama that encapsulates the uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar era. ...

    $251.00

  • SECOND VIOLIN
    JOHN LAWTON
    As London braces for WWII, a string of murdered rabbis draws Inspector Troy into a mystery that " sets pulses racing and the jaded responses tingling" ( The Irish Times).   One of today's top historical espionage writers, considered "as good as Le Carré" ( Chicago Tribune) and "a master," John Lawton adds another spellbinding thriller to his Inspector Troy series with Second Vi...

    $274.00

  • FLESH WOUNDS
    JOHN LAWTON
    A serial killer stalks post-WWII London in a gritty detective novel featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Troy.   An old flame has returned to Troy's life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty's amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner don't ruin her husband's political career. But he also wants to know w...

    $251.00

  • A LITTLE WHITE DEATH
    JOHN LAWTON
    "[Lawton's] work stands head and shoulders above most other contemporary thrillers, earning those comparisons to Le Carré." — The Boston Globe   The latest novel from the master spy novelist John Lawton follows Inspector Troy, now Scotland Yard's chief detective, deep into a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair.   England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The o...

    $212.00

  • HAMMER TO FALL
    JOHN LAWTON
    British agent Joe Wilderness returns in "Lawton's ongoing recreation of Cold War chicanery . . . one of the great pleasures of modern spy fiction" (Mick Herron, award-winning author of the Slough House series). 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 gla...

    $338.00

  • FRIENDS AND TRAITORS
    JOHN LAWTON
    Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard stars in thriller that's "part murder mystery, part spy tale . . . a wickedly seductive entertainment" ( The Washington Post).   London, 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 European trip with his older brother, Rod. R...

    $249.00

  • THE UNFORTUNATE ENGLISHMAN
    JOHN LAWTON
    A British agent is drawn to Berlin's bridge of spies in this "superlative Cold War espionage story" from the author of the acclaimed Inspector Troy Novels ( The  Seattle Times).   It's the summer of 1961, and the inscrutable Khrushchev is developing plans for something that could change the course of the Cold War. As he and Kennedy gamble with the fate of millions of lives, Coc...

    $251.00

  • SWEET SUNDAY
    JOHN LAWTON
    1969 is a time of turmoil and murder for a New York PI in this " twisty, sometimes terrifying" novel from the author of the acclaimed Inspector Troy Novels ( Kirkus Reviews ).   New York PI Turner Raines is a has-been—and the things he has been include a broken civil rights worker, a second-rate lawyer, and a tenth-rate yippie reporter. But in 1969, as the USA is about to land ...

    $200.00

  • THEN WE TAKE BERLIN
    JOHN LAWTON
    "A stylish spy thriller" of postwar Berlin—the first in a thrilling new series from the acclaimed author of the Inspector Troy Novels ( The New York Times Book Review).   John Wilfrid Holderness—aka Joe Wilderness—was a young Cockney cardsharp surviving the London Blitz before he started crisscrossing war-torn Europe as an MI6 agent. With the war over, he's become a "free-agent...

    $200.00

  • OLD FLAMES
    JOHN LAWTON
    Scotland Yard's Inspector Troy returns in a Cold War spy thriller hailed as "stylish, sophisticated, suspenseful . . . A fictional tour de force" (Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post ).   In April 1956, at the height of the Cold War, Khrushchev and Bulganin, leaders of the Soviet Union, are in Britain on an official visit. Chief Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard is assigned to ...

    $251.00

  • A LILY OF THE FIELD
    JOHN LAWTON
    Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard returns in "one of the best thrillers of the year" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review).   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—Méret Voytek, a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel's st...

    $229.00

  • BLUFFING MR. CHURCHILL
    JOHN LAWTON
    Scotland Yard's Sergeant Troy returns in a WWII thriller praised as an absorbing blend of espionage and detection" ( The Denver Post).   It is 1941. Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an SS officer, has just fled Germany with Hitler's henchmen on his trail. Stahl's man in the American embassy, the shy and sheltered Calvin M. Cormack, is teamed with a boiste...

    $189.00