Bad Actors: Slough House Thriller 8
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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.
'A pitch-perfect espionage thriller' Sunday Times
'This is entertainment of the highest class' Literary Review
'[Bad Actors] deserves the bouquets that will come its way, and Herron is building a series with lasting resonance' The Times
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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.
'A pitch-perfect espionage thriller' Sunday Times
'This is entertainment of the highest class' Literary Review
'[Bad Actors] deserves the bouquets that will come its way, and Herron is building a series with lasting resonance' The Times
Title: Bad Actors: Slough House Thriller 8
Author: Herron, Mick
ISBN: 9781529378702
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Publisher: John Murray Press
Publication Date: 2022-05-12
Number of Pages: 352
Weight: 0.6002 kg
Herron stands firmly in the line of descent from Ian Fleming. It is fitting that he has been given the broadcast treatment because - following the death of John le Carre - he is at the summit of what I believe is a new golden age of spy fiction. . . Herron began writing about a private detective and switched to spy thrillers in 2010, but it was eight years before he made it big. While he won awards, his books barely sold. His second, Dead Lions (2013), did not even secure a hardback release in the UK. It was only when the publisher John Murray rescued him from obscurity that he began to enjoy commercial success - he recently topped one million sales for the Slough House series -- Tim Shipman, Chief Political Commentator * Sunday Times *
[Bad Actors] deserves the bouquets that will come its way, and Herron is building a series with lasting resonance. We'll miss the show when some day he decides to bring the curtain down * The Times *
A pitch-perfect espionage thriller and a double delight for political nerds as it thrusts the slow horses into a Russian intelligence operation in Westminster. . . What Bad Actors shows is that he has inherited le Carre's mantle for using the thriller to dissect the times in which he lives. . . Bad Actors is his most piquant political satire, dripping with tart observations about our unruly rulers -- Tim Shipman * Sunday Times Culture *
There's no doubting Herron's intelligence. Will he prove to be our age's Anthony Trollope? . . . Few other contemporary thrillers, at any event, would have the confidence to make a plot point of the post-Brexit residency status of some of Lazio's hardcore Curva Nord football fans . . . [Bad Actors] deserves the bouquets that will come its way, and Herron is building a series with lasting resonance * The Times *
Anyone who enjoys Mick Herron's masterful political satires and fantastical spy fiction must be afraid that one day his powers of invention will falter. It hasn't happened yet. Bad Actors is as good as ever . . . This novel contains some serious, hard-hitting emotions alongside the wit, neat plotting, great action scenes, beautiful descriptions and wonderful schoolboy smut (placed in the mouth of Lamb) we have come to associate with Herron's writing. This is entertainment of the highest class * Literary Review *
This highly topical, beautifully written, indecently entertaining book maintains the impeccably high standards Herron has set for this essential series * Irish Times *
What spurs me to keep reading each new installment is Herron's absurdist voice, which could devolve into cheap cynicism but never does * New York Times *
Like all of Herron's enthralling series, Bad Actors is both thriller and anti-thriller, subverting and denying the treats you expect from the genre, but then sardonically providing them in a twisted form after all * Sunday Times, Thriller of the Month *
Anyone who tries to understand modern Britain through its fiction but overlooks Mick Herron's satirical thrillers merits a punishment posting to the critics' version of Slough House. . . Snappily paced, his comic prose fizzes with an epigrammatic chutzpah, softened by elegiac grace notes. . . Herron, in Wodehouse or Pratchett mode, fashions a self-sustaining comic realm. . . it's the line-by-line hits of patter and backchat - part-Noel Coward, part-Joe Orton - that spritz every page * Spectator *
Beautifully written with a satisfyingly complex plot and an explosive finale. Herron remains Britain's finest living thriller writer. . . [A] remarkable talent * Sunday Express *
Mixes his trademark black comedy with insights into the tangled moral universe we inhabit. . . Herron at his very best * Mail on Sunday *
Written with the gifted Herron's typical wit, and with Lamb's personality pervading every page, this is the antithesis of the discreet George Smiley * Daily Mail *
One of the best entries in an outstanding series * Daily Express (Scotland) , Daily Mirror *
What we're reading * The i Paper *
It's beautifully written with a satisfyingly complex plot and an explosive finale * Daily Record *
Like all of Herron's enthralling series, Bad Actors is both thriller and anti-thriller, subverting and denying the treats you expect from the genre, but then sardonically providing them in a twisted form after all * The Sunday Times *
Snappily paced, his comic prose fizzes with an epigrammatic chutzpah, softened by elegiac grace notes * The Spectator *
It's beautifully written with a satisfyingly complex plot and an explosive finale. Herron remains Britain's finest living thriller writer * Sunday Express *
New readers attracted by the TV version of Slow Horses will find Herron at his very best * The Mail on Sunday, Mail Online *
The foremost living spy novelist in the English language -- John Gray * New Statesman *
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