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- Baskerville
- Baskerville
- Baskerville
Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
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Imprint
Baskerville
- Paperback Apr 11, 2023 | 9781529378726 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 9, 2022 | 9781529378702 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 12, 2022 | 9781529378696 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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Baskerville
- Paperback Apr 11, 2023 | 9781529378726 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 9, 2022 | 9781529378702 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 12, 2022 | 9781529378696 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Baskerville
- Paperback Apr 11, 2023 | 9781529378726 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Aug 9, 2022 | 9781529378702 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 12, 2022 | 9781529378696 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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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]
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'A pitch-perfect espionage thriller' Sunday Times
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.
*Includes the short story Standing by the Wall: A Slough House Interlude*
'The foremost living spy novelist in the English language' New Statesman
'This is entertainment of the highest class' Literary Review 'The man is a genius' The Spectator
Praise for Bad Actors: The Instant #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
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Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction - Sunday Times
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Herron has certainly devised the most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley - The Times
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Herron's novels are genuinely thrilling - Daily Telegraph
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Britain's finest living thriller writer - Sunday Express
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Mick Herron is one of the finest writers of his generation
Mick Herron
Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award, two CWA Daggers, been published in twenty-five languages, and are the basis of a major TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He is also the author of the ZoA Boehm series, and the standalone novels Reconstruction and This is What Happened. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
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