Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023
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.
Publisher: John Murray PressISBN: 9781529378726Number of pages: 400Weight: 327 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 42 mm
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'Bad Actors took a big step into literary excellence. The dazzling,Conrad-like structure turned an entertainment into a major literary statement.'- Philip Henshe, The Spectator
'I love Mick Herron's books,both for what they are - which is: pitch-perfect,fantastically-written,hilariously-funny spy capers - and also for what they say about Britain...Herron is not just a top-notch thriller writer,but a satirist of the first order.'- Oliver Bulloughs,Waterstones
Mick Herron
Kicking off with 2010's Slow Horses,Mick Herron's Slough House series has lit a match under the British spy genre. With its world-wary coterie of misfits and starring the cunning Jackson Lamb,Herron is now at the front rank of espionage fiction and considered by many to be the true spiritual successor to Len Deighton.
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