In the Presence of the Enemy
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 625
- ISBN-13
- 9780553408461
- Type
- novel
About this book
In the Presence of the Enemy (1996), the eighth novel at 625 pages, followed Playing for the Ashes into print as Lynley and Havers's personal lives -- and the series' page counts -- kept growing.
Key facts about In the Presence of the Enemy
Elizabeth George wrote In the Presence of the Enemy, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1996. The book has 625 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780553408461 to find the main one.
In the Presence of the Enemy is book 8 of 22 in the Inspector Lynley series. The series has 22 published books. However, the series starts with A Great Deliverance (1988). A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 23 September 2025.
Additionally, Elizabeth George writes Whidbey Island as a separate series. Those series sit on our police procedural and young adult mystery shelves. Meanwhile, A Slowly Dying Cause is the latest published Elizabeth George book on file, from 23 September 2025.
About Elizabeth George
Elizabeth George is an American author best known for the Inspector Thomas Lynley series of British crime novels, an unusual case of an American writer working almost entirely within English settings and class dynamics. See every Elizabeth George book in order.
Its place in Inspector Lynley
In the Presence of the Enemy is book 8 in the Inspector Lynley series. It follows Playing for the Ashes. It is followed by Deception on His Mind. See the full Inspector Lynley reading order.
Thomas Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton, is a Scotland Yard detective who happens to be minor aristocracy — a premise Elizabeth George uses to explore British class friction from the inside, especially through his prickly, working-class partner DS Barbara Havers, whose resentment of and eventual loyalty to Lynley is one of the great slow-burn partnerships in crime fiction. George, an American writing English detective fiction with unusual authority, builds each novel as a dense, doorstop-length literary mystery…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780553408461