Nicholas Lezard

Unfinished business in Berlin: The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron, reviewed

How it all began: Di Taverner, Service legend David Cartwright and the rest of the Slow Horses make themselves known to the reader in an origin story disguised as a follow-up

Rosalind Eleazar and Dustin Demri-Burns in the TV adaptation of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses. [Alamy]
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  • The Secret Hours

    Mick Herron

    Baskerville, pp. 393, £22

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