Books with title Flames

Pub Date: 2014-02-13 Pages: 336 Language: English Publisher: Pan Macmillan Waverly and the other members of the Empyrean have been scattered. and their home ship destroyed The mission to rescue their parents didnt go quite as planned. and now. theyre at an even greater disadvantage: trapped with their enemies on the New Horizon. trying to find a way to survive Will Seths health hold out long enough to help Waverly topple their enemy And will Waverly find a way to unite her friends before the final. battle Nothing is certain and every second counts in this explosive and romantic finale.

1956. The Cold War cracks a little. Nikita Khrushchev, the most powerful man alive, is visiting London, and Russian emigre Chief Inspector Troy is assigned to protect him. A whistle-stop tour, a clandestine trek to an East End pub, and a murder, provide Troy with excitement enough. But when the body of a retired Royal Navy diver is found floating near a Russian battleship in Portsmouth, it gives every excuse for both sides to refreeze the Cold War. Troy's investigation leads him to the rotten heart of M16 and into the path of an old flame - Larissa Tosca, late of the US army, later still of the KGB...

Brilliantly evoking the intrigue of the Cold War and 1950s London, John Lawton’s thrilling sequel to Black Out takes Inspector Troy deep into the rotten heart of MI6, the distant days of his childhood, and the dangerous arms of an old flame: Larissa Tosca, late of the U.S. Army, later still of the KGB. It is April 1956, and an official visit to Britain by Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Bulganin is unexpectedly interrupted when a mutilated body is found under the hull of Khrushchev’s ship in Portsmouth Harbor. Is the dead man a Royal Navy diver or the corpse of Arnold Cockerell, a furniture salesman with a mysterious source of income? As the mystery deepens, the inexplicable murders continue, leading Troy to an unforgettable discovery.