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title: "Flesh Wounds (Inspector Troy Series Book 5)"
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# Flesh Wounds (Inspector Troy Series Book 5)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A great murder mystery and spy thriller series.
  

*by K***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2020*

Interesting plot and engaging characters. Lawton always weaves historical characters and events into his stories; sometimes a fairly accurate rendition as a backdrop/secondary story device (Kruschev's state visit to the UK) and other times a  fictionalized version as the main story theme (the Profumo Affair).  - You can read the novels as presented without losing any understanding or, if you're a history buff like me, you can do some reseach on characters and events. Either way, Lawton's books are great reads; combining murder mystery and spy novel. This is the fifth in the Detective Inspector Troy series - I've read all five and am currently on number six, Second Violin. Lawton's the best writer since John Le Carre and is his equal. The books in the series don't follow a linear chronology - they skip back-and forth in time. Characters and events in an earlier publication are "introduced" in later books covering an earlier time period - don't worry, they all make sense and there are no spoilers. So, like Star Wars movies, do you read them in the order written or in the chronology of the story arc? If so, Flesh Wounds (book six) is the first episode and his first book, Black Out, is actually the third episode. I prefer to read them in the order written (as I have done with all of Alan Furst's novels) to see how his writing and character development evolve. Either way, you're in for a treat.

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    Inspector Troy has wasted enough of my time
  

*by H***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2018*

Having now read Books 1 though 5 of the Inspector Troy series, I can confidently say that this one is the worst of the lot.  What I mistakenly thought was an interesting and different type of protagonist for an interesting and different historically-connected crime series turned out to be a character study of a thoroughly unpleasant man.  Inspector Troy as painted in this book has very few admirable qualities.  He is arrogant, snobbish, judgmental,  lacking in empathy and seemingly capable of (and interested in) connecting with fellow humans (at least of the female variety) only sexually.  A draggy and unpleasant story focusing on a man whose only positive characteristic is his ability to dispatch criminals even more unpleasant than he is.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Sensational Crime Literature
  

*by H***E on Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2017*

With each John Lawton book I think that besides Alan Furst, or Jo Nesbo, there is not a better writer around.  After Flesh Wounds there is no doubt that Lawton is the absolute best writer in terms of character, plot, a myriad of themes, action and the incredible local color of London from  pre WW2 to 1959 and beyond.  This book is especially powerful in that the villains are especially evil even though we don't see much of them.  We see Inspector Troy get blown up and shot all in the line of duty.  But more important is the suspenseful way Lawton creates the story with his rich repeating characters who he weaves in and out of his book.  Anyone who wants a challenge and joy of reading superb and satisfying crime lit, this is it, the kind you don't want to end, especially so as it is incredibly breath taking.  Having said that, anyone interested in this book might try an earlier effort such as Second Violin, A Lily of the Field or Bluffing Churchill.  Meeting the characters from these books will explain a lot.

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