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Moscow Exile

Book Review: Moscow Exile by John Lawton

By Janet Webb

May 24, 2023

Moscow Exile initially unfolds as a fast romp through the exploits of British intelligence agents who played for Mother Russia. Intense high-level espionage takes place in Washington, D.C. in the late nineteen-forties, post-war years that encompassed the Red Scare and the McCarthy Hearings. Although it wasn’t much of a romp when aristocratic Englishmen Guy Burgess…

The Rise of the Little Guy

By John Lawton

April 14, 2023

(A tip of the hat to Warren Clarke—1947-2014)   Picture this: You have finished your novel, and as the euphoria evaporates, the publishers say, “How about a sequel?” By now the euphoria has been sucked into the stratosphere because … you haven’t the faintest idea what to write next. What does the honest writer do?…

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