The List
A Slough House novella
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- 25,00 kr
Publisher Description
'Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to' Mark Billingham
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 account. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.
Customer Reviews
Triple agent!
A delicious spy novella, The List is brilliantly told in Mick Herron’s signature tongue-in-cheek British sophistication—something I’ve come to love even more in my fourth Herron novel. Packed with spy jargon, some new to me, it weaves a stunning ghost network into an intricate web of deception, culminating in a triple agent twist that takes subterfuge to a whole new level. So ingenious is the plot that only the old fox, Jackson Lamb, could unravel the mystery of the nine shut-ins and the one real agent hidden among them.
Though The List is a slight diversion from the Slow Horses franchise (chronologically following Real Tigers in Herron’s Slough House spy universe), it remains essential reading. It offers deeper insight into key characters like Lamb, Standish, Taverner, and Cartwright—making it a treat for those eager to explore the inner workings of our beloved misfit spies and the cunning & deadly 2nd desk at Regent Park.
Set in a post-Cold War contemporary timeline, I was surprised that Herron maintained Germany as MI5’s clandestine adversary. Perhaps, as he suggests, some spies have yet to fully come in from the cold.
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