John Lawton Books in Order

John Lawton is a multifaceted television director and producer who has spent his career bridging cultural divides, interpreting the USA to the English and vice versa. His impressive collaborations include work with esteemed writers Gore Vidal, Neil Simon, Scott Turow, Noam Chomsky, Fay Weldon, Harold Pinter, and Kathy Acker. Notably, he holds the distinction of being named in a Parliamentary Bill in the British House of Lords as an offender against taste and balance, and has been denounced from a Mississippi pulpit as a 'Communist.' Lawton's extensive travels have taken him to over half of the 50 US states, and he has lived in both the high, wet hills of Derbyshire, England, and the arid landscapes of Arizona and Italy. As a prolific author, Lawton has written 1963, a comprehensive social and political history of the Kennedy-Macmillan years, as well as six thrillers in the Troy series and the standalone novel Sweet Sunday. His works have garnered significant recognition, including the 1995 WH Smith Fresh Talent Award for Black Out, which kicked off the Troy series. Columbia Pictures acquired the rights to Riptide, the fourth Troy novel, in 2006, and A Little White Death was a New York Times notable in 2007. Lawton's contributions to the literary world have been acknowledged by the London Daily Telegraph, which named him one of the '50 Crime Writers to Read before You Die'