Nobody Walks
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4.3 • 161 Ratings
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- £5.49
Publisher Description
'A first-rate modern thriller' Daily Mail
Set in the same world as Mick Herron's bestselling Slough House thrillers, Nobody Walks introduces JK Coe, a fledgling spy who's about to get a harsh lesson in the realities of life on Spook Street
Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead - Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking pot.
Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home to London to find out the truth about his son's death. But more than a few people are interested to hear Bettany is back in town, from incarcerated mob bosses to those in the highest echelons of MI5. And some of them - like JK Coe - will have cause to regret his reappearance.
Bettany might have thought he'd left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this superb thriller, CWA Gold Dagger Award winner Herron returns to the secretive world of British intelligence featured in his two Slough House novels, Slow Horses and Dead Lions. Thomas Bettany, a former undercover specialist who came apart after his wife's death, is doing menial labor in a European slaughterhouse, estranged from everyone including his grown son, Liam. When Liam falls to his death from the balcony of his London flat, apparently under the influence of a new drug called muskrat, Bettany returns to England to find out what really happened. His quest leads him to the shadowy Vincent Driscoll, head of the software-design firm Liam worked for, and to the bizarre Dame Ingrid Tearney, head of the Intelligence Service, who is either worried that Bettany will discover something better kept under wraps or else wants Bettany to do some dirty work on her behalf. Well-drawn characters complement plotting that's convoluted but never opaque or formulaic. Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today.
Customer Reviews
Truly difficult to put down…
A gripping 6-hour read from cover to cover - forget food, forget drink, just enjoy the ride.
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I never tried to imagine London without Slough House, the Slow Horses, or Jackson Lamb. For me there is no London without them, and yet here, cleverly crafted, superbly written and as tense as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, it is. Herron has told a back story that is riveting, my fingers are crossed for more...