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gervase_fenShe said, “You’re sending River undercover --- “
“Oh god, I might have guessed, “ Lamb sighed.
“ --- into something you already know is a trap?”
“I only told him a couple of hours ago. Did he change his Facebook status already?”
Hugely entertaining, the follow up to “Slow Horses” brings back MI5’s B-team, the misfits and the rejects, still working out of Slough House round the corner from the Barbican. The suspicious death of a Cold War era English agent, Dickie Bow (whose body is found on a rail replacement bus service between Oxford and Reading) is just the start of an intricate and beautifully constructed twin-track thriller – one strand a le Carre-esque Moscow Centre / Karla wilderness of mirrors espionage tale, the other set in a 21st century London beloved of Russian oligarchs, with vanity architecture and an anti-capitalism ‘day of action’ on the horizon. Mick Herron also throws in a too-perfect Cotswold village and again ruthlessly dispatches supporting characters in the best traditions of Spooks. A worthy winner of the CWA Dagger, but I would urge readers to begin, as I did, with “Slow Horses”, as the events of that novel reverberate in this one.
“Oh god, I might have guessed, “ Lamb sighed.
“ --- into something you already know is a trap?”
“I only told him a couple of hours ago. Did he change his Facebook status already?”
Hugely entertaining, the follow up to “Slow Horses” brings back MI5’s B-team, the misfits and the rejects, still working out of Slough House round the corner from the Barbican. The suspicious death of a Cold War era English agent, Dickie Bow (whose body is found on a rail replacement bus service between Oxford and Reading) is just the start of an intricate and beautifully constructed twin-track thriller – one strand a le Carre-esque Moscow Centre / Karla wilderness of mirrors espionage tale, the other set in a 21st century London beloved of Russian oligarchs, with vanity architecture and an anti-capitalism ‘day of action’ on the horizon. Mick Herron also throws in a too-perfect Cotswold village and again ruthlessly dispatches supporting characters in the best traditions of Spooks. A worthy winner of the CWA Dagger, but I would urge readers to begin, as I did, with “Slow Horses”, as the events of that novel reverberate in this one.
