New York: Viking, (1995). Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a thriller which combines espionage with a murder investigation. Set in 1944 London, when the Luftwaffe is making its final desperate assaults on the city, this introduces Detective Sergeant Frederick Troy. A charred dismembered corpse has been found by some children in an East End bomb site. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-67085767X.