Books
by Mick Herron
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Bad Actors |
This is the eighth in the Jackson Lamb series, centring around demoted and de-motivated spies from Slough House, the slow horses. This is his most political novel to date, wickedly so since not much imagination is needed to identify the real-life Westminster inspirations for his characters. Bad actors, you see, bend the rules for their own gains. Can the slow horses outwit them? Herron's pacy and comic genius leads to a thrilling and anarchic conclusion.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 106 Autumn 2022) |
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Joe Country |
The latest in a series of witty comic thrillers features the jaundiced anti-heroes of Slough House, dumping ground for errant British agents. They engage not with those that seek to undermine this country from without but rather within the closed toxic world of our own secret services. The result is self-inflicted chaos and suspicion and a plot that draws with topical savagery on the current national mood. Herron is the UK's new master of spy fiction.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 94 Autumn 2019) |
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