The eighth book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling Slough House THRILLER series by Mick Herron, who has been called ´Britain´s finest living thriller writer´ [Sunday Express]
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
´Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction´ Sunday Times
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere.
A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5´s Regent´s Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent´s Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5´s radar.
Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation.
In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they´ll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.