Andrew Taylor

In hot water

The dialogue crackles — and the cars crash — in Mick Herron’s latest thrilling caper among the misfits of MI6

issue 04 February 2017

It’s good to be back in Spook Street, home of the nation’s secret service. From a handful of locations across London, its dedicated employees struggle ceaselessly against the nation’s enemies, when not otherwise engaged in scratching each other’s backs or scratching each other’s eyes out.

Spook Street is Mick Herron’s fourth novel in the series, and like its predecessors its focus is the activities of the ‘slow horses’, the Service’s rejects.

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