Spook Street
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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What happens when an old spy loses his mind, but keeps his deadliest secrets? When a panic button flashes at Service HQ, the irreverent Jackson Lamb is called out to identify a body, dragging the eccentric, pen-pushing rejects of Slough House directly into a lethal crossfire. At the dangerous heart of the brewing storm is River Cartwright, whose grandfather—a paranoid, cold-war era legend suffering from creeping dementia—has just neutralized an intruder he mistook for an active hit squad. As a sinister web of historic institutional cover-ups begins to unravel, the "slow horses" must move quickly to protect one of their own before the secret service's clean-up crews permanently silence them all.Deftly dismantling the romanticized mythology of contemporary espionage, Mick Herron delivers a masterfully cynical, highly satirical slice of modern noir. Written with an incredibly sharp, razor-witted prose style, the narrative juxtaposes laugh-out-loud workplace banality against genuine, high-stakes operational dread. This award-winning fourth installment in the Slough House saga serves as an exceptional exploration of administrative betrayal, aging vulnerabilities, and the cold, unyielding mechanics of systemic state survival.
Author: Mick Herron
Format: Paperback
Published: 2017, John Murray
Genre: Thriller
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What happens when an old spy loses his mind, but keeps his deadliest secrets? When a panic button flashes at Service HQ, the irreverent Jackson Lamb is called out to identify a body, dragging the eccentric, pen-pushing rejects of Slough House directly into a lethal crossfire. At the dangerous heart of the brewing storm is River Cartwright, whose grandfather—a paranoid, cold-war era legend suffering from creeping dementia—has just neutralized an intruder he mistook for an active hit squad. As a sinister web of historic institutional cover-ups begins to unravel, the "slow horses" must move quickly to protect one of their own before the secret service's clean-up crews permanently silence them all.Deftly dismantling the romanticized mythology of contemporary espionage, Mick Herron delivers a masterfully cynical, highly satirical slice of modern noir. Written with an incredibly sharp, razor-witted prose style, the narrative juxtaposes laugh-out-loud workplace banality against genuine, high-stakes operational dread. This award-winning fourth installment in the Slough House saga serves as an exceptional exploration of administrative betrayal, aging vulnerabilities, and the cold, unyielding mechanics of systemic state survival.