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. Rod has decided to take his entire family on "the Grand
Tour" for his fifty-first birthday: a whirlwind of restaurants,
galleries, and concert halls from Paris to Florence to Vienna to
Amsterdam. But in Vienna, Frederick Troy crosses paths with an old
acquaintance: British-spy-turned-Soviet-agent Guy Burgess, who makes an
extraordinary confession: "I want to come home." Troy knows this news
will cause a ruckus in London, but he doesn't expect that an MI5 man
will gunned down as a result--and Troy himself suspected of the crime.
As he fights to prove his innocence, Troy finds that Burgess is not the
only ghost who has returned to haunt him. Richly atmospheric and full of
twists and turns, Friends and Traitors will satisfy John Lawton's many
fans and win him new ones as well.