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Nobody Walks: Mick Herron

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It’s a bit grim, but a good read, and there are even a few passing references to some Slough House characters, which is fun for fans like me. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. I think that John Le Carre is one of the acknowledged masters of the spy novel, but his specialty was the Cold War era.

The opening lines of Mick Herron’s latest novel, Nobody Walks, introduce readers to Tom, a worker in a meat processing plant just as he is receiving the news that his estranged son Liam has fallen to his death from a balcony of his London apartment while smoking pot. If you haven't read Nobody Walks and you love the Slough House books then make a point of reading it. I enjoyed the writing which is always to the point, the humour which is often very British and the characters.However, not all the facts stack up for Tom and he begins his own investigation into Liam’s friends, colleagues and his boss Vincent Driscoll at the software development company where he worked. Set in the world of Herron's Slough House series, and not including Slough House in the tale, Nobody Walks gives me a look into Dame Ingrid Tearney (1st desk at MI5) and the spider webs she spins. Released again in the US and UK via Soho Press and it’s the final book released by them in the UK before John Murray took over. Bettany might have thought he’d left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.

Fans of the Jackson Lamb series will be pleased to know that this story is set in the same universe, with at least six names known from that series playing roles or rating mentions here, one of whom comprehensively proves that the fate meted out to them in a later book is absolutely a just desert, if insufficiently punitive. Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. This short stand-alone novel is not part of the Slough House series that features Jackson Lamb and his band of failed spies but is written in the same MI5 universe. For the first time we meet in person Diana Taverner’s much talked about boss and nemesis Dame Ingrid Tearney, the head of MI5.There’d been a sharp rise in the number of women reading bondage porn in public, but other than that, London had stayed London. Coe was introduced in the novella, The List, and took his place in Slough House in Spook Street; in this novel, the reader learns the details of the ordeal that landed him under Jackson Lamb’s supervision.

Undercover meant dropping out of sight, leading somebody else's life in a succession of foreign cities. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. If you are a fan of the Slough House series like me, you need to read this if you haven't, if for no other reason because it features JK Coe, and tells about his ordeal that landed him in Slough House. But this is really Beattany’s story and from the beginning you get the sense that nobody will be walking away clean from this story. Nobody Walks is a standalone novel, that fits neatly after the first two books in the Slough House (Slow Horses) series featuring the bumbling failed MI5 spies - outcasts from the service – who spend their days engaged in mind-numbing tasks under the odious and wily Jackson Lamb.I suppose if I had a choice between a second book and another Slough House book, I'd choose the latter. Although this is set in the same universe as the Slough House series, this book works as an adjunct rather than being a direct addition to the series: we learn the back story of JK Coe (who will join the Slow Horses in Real Tigers) and penetrate far further into the Machiavellian mind of Dame Ingrid than perhaps we might want to. Suspicion lands on Vincent Driscoll, Liam's rather odd games-designer boss, and this raises a red flag for MI5. The official account is that he was high on a new, particularly strong blend of marijuana and fell from his own living room window. There’s a gaming mogul, for whom his son worked, and some kind of criminal network that he wonders if his son was connected to.

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