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- Herausgeber: Grove Press UK
- Kategorie: Krimi
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
1963. While London is beginning to swing, George Horsfield has settled into a stultifying routine - pushing paperwork around at the War Office on behalf of the fading British Empire, then catching the 5.27 home from Waterloo for twin beds and Ovaltine. Until a case of mistaken identity leads him into a world of Russian spies, cash-stuffed envelopes and call girls who aren't what they seem... This elegant short story, imbued with the mordant wit and seamless period detail that characterise John Lawton's work, shows once again why 'Lawton's up there with Philip Kerr and Alan Furst. Yes, he's that good.' (The Sun)
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Grove Press UK
First published in 2010 in Agents of Treachery: Spy Stories, edited by Otto Penzler, published by Corvus, an imprint of Grove Atlantic Ltd
This E-book edition published in Great Britain in 2018 by Grove Press UK, an imprint of Grove/Atlantic Inc.
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EAST OF SUEZ, WEST OF CHARING CROSS ROAD
John Lawton
UNHAPPINESS DOES NOT fall on a man from the sky like a branch struck by lightning, it is more like rising damp. It creeps up day by day, unfelt or ignored until it is too late. And if it’s true that each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, then the whole must be greater than the sum of the parts in Tolstoy’s equation, because George Horsfield was unhappy in a way that could only be described as commonplace. He had married young, and he had not married well.
