The List: A Novella (Slough House) (Soho Crime)

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Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin. The seventh entry to the Slough House series is as thrilling and bleeding-edge relevant as ever. Perfect pacing, and a femme fatale bursting with promise. Tradecraft respected, the old ways honoured. A middle-aged spy yearning for one last triumph. Plot developed with great promise. Full of quotable passages. Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank accoun... With many of his earlier novels being crime and spy thrillers set in Oxford, he’s always kept himself grounded by using his real-life experience and knowledge. This was then broadened in scope though, as he began to feel more and more comfortable and confident with the genre.

The List: A Novella by Mick Herron: 9781616956417

Working in London now, he spends much of his time going to and from Oxford where he lives and continues to work on his writing to this day, as he builds up his extensive oeuvre of different franchises with their now much beloved protagonists. The story follows the lives of the agents who are in the Slough House and how eager they are to prove their worth. Many psychological and emotional aspects of the story work under the hood and give this series the drive and the “standout” factor. Living and working, he is always kept busy working on his next novel, or building his next franchise, as his short stories continue to get published in the Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine publication. Creating a brand for himself, he’s managed to set his material apart from the rest in what is already a fairly crowded genre. Hess often complained about the money that he was paid for his years of service and it seems that he had been finding a way to supplement his income. When a second, secret bank account of his is uncovered, it reveals the possibility that he may have been a double agent. If he was, then this happened on Bachelor’s watch and now his future is in doubt. When Diana Taverner threatens him from everything from a prison sentence, to cancelling his pension, and even Slough House doesn’t look like an option, Bachelor knows he has to clean up the mess that Taverner is clear that he has created.From the latest Scandinavian serial killer to Golden Age detective stories, we love our crime novels!

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Known for his unique take on the thriller novel, he’s managed to carve himself a niche within the field of crime literature, providing his work with a sense of humor that manages to lighten the narrative somewhat. That’s not to say it detracts from the darker elements though, as he’s definitely not averse to showing the grim realities of crime, as he’s well known for suspense and intrigues too. An intricate espionage thriller from Herron, whose Slough House series is the basis for Apple TV+'s Slow Horses. Bonus: This terrific standalone offers an enticing slice of Slough House's origin story.” This Slough House novella is listed as 2.5 in the series, putting it between “Dead Lions,” and “Real Tigers.” All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate.She laughed what sounded like a smoker’s laugh. Last time he’d heard anything quite like it, he been sanding off the edge of a door. When one of their own is kidnapped, the washed-up MI5 operatives of Slough House -- the Slow Horses, as they're known -- outwit rogue agents at the very highest levels of British Intelligence, and even to Downing Street itself. It was extraordinary, thought Coe, how much a badly dressed shoeless fat man could look like a crocodile.