BLUE RONDO

Book ID/图书代码： 00200005B02351

English Summary/英文概要： The new ’Troy’ from John Lawton is a gem. The backdrop is London in the late 1950s. The East End is ripe for redevelopment; the property sharks are buying up the bombsites and Victorian terraces; corruption is rife; Macmillan is PM of a shaky Tory government; Gaitskell expects to succeed as the first Labour PM for almost a decade to the delight of Troy’s brothers, one an MP, the other a Fleet Street editor. Troy’s last big case (told in Lawton’s OLD FLAMES) had been to protect the Russian leaders, Bulganin and Khrushchev, on their first visit to Britain in 1956. Now a series of increasingly sadistic murders occurs on his old East End patch; a wartime girlfriend, who became a GI bride - since married to a Democratic Presidential candidate - reappears into his life. Nor is she the only woman to occupy his bed in the tiny house in Goodwin’s Court, St Martin’s Lane. When ’Ike’, the retiring US President, makes a farewell visit to London, all Troy’s worlds combine in a frightening cresendo of corruption and violence. The title, Blue Rondo, is taken from a Dave Brubeck record.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “案子结束了”----这几个字是每一位当警察都想在自己的案卷上盖上的，但是Troy知道他这个案子他无法撒手。1944年他枪杀了他的情妇Diana Brack。她为什么没有会反反复复的出现在他的梦境中，这是某种报复。 十五年之后这样的梦境变成了现实，1959年的伦敦满目创痍，一个等待重生的城市和国家，等待着东山再起的大不列颠。企业家们枕戈待旦，老卫兵蠢蠢欲动，当然这一切只有在伦敦东区那伙有组织的匪帮中才表现的最明显。 当“国王”Alf Marx被判终身监禁的时候，整个东区的阵线被完全撕开了，负责逮捕国王的警官被暗杀了，“国王”的继任者消失的无影无踪，取代他位子的是一位年轻的恶棍，从小就饱受战争的疾苦，什么都不懂只知道小时候的贫穷，他什么都想要，什么都想拿。 Troy受伤了，路过一起爆炸案时被炸到了，所以不得不再次请病假休息了，他的女朋友、上司都想让他退休了，看来这次真的该结束自己的生涯了。但是曾经的过去又出现了，老情人从二十年前的美国回到了现在；一位没有任何道德观的老于世故的女人，和华盛顿之间有着可怕的瓜葛，她决心把二十年前没做完的事情做完，最无能的纽约侦探一个劲的要把逮到她。梦境变成了现实，Troy年轻时的往事开始萦绕他，无数的人都好象在说，“我不是告诉过你。”

Awards/获奖情况：

About the Author/作者介绍：

Format:HARDCOVER

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：

原文第一章内容：暂无

手稿：暂无

大纲：暂无