Nobody Walks

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In Mick Herron's Nobody Walks, Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn't know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son in London is dead. Maybe it's the guilt he feels about losing touch with Liam that's gnawing at him, or maybe he's actually put his finger on a labyrinthine plot, but either way he'll get to the bottom of the tragedy, no matter whose feathers he has to ruffle. He might have thought he'd left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.

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Praise for Nobody Walks

2015 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award Shortlist
Nancy Pearl "Best Reads" of 2015
ABooklistBest Crime Novel of 2015
One of Booklist's"101 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade"

"Fast-moving and deeply cynical, yet thoroughly heartfelt, this is a first-rate modern thriller."
Daily Mail

"Blackly comic."
The Sunday Times

"English author Mick Herron writes thrillers that are smart in the places that count. Smart prose, smart plotting."
Toronto Star

"Enough suspense and action to keep thriller fans happy but it also has a strong psychological component. The final revelation in this story will it will knock you backwards."
Daily Star

"A deep evocation of the consequences of both violence and revenge."
Los Angeles Review of Books

"[A] superb thriller . . . Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today."
Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review

"Herrons remarkable novel has enough suspense, action, and deductive dazzlement to keep genre fans happy. But be warned: these are deep waters, and this is not nodding-off, night-table reading."
Booklist, Starred Review

"Herron strips his revenge story to the bone, paring away unnecessary characters, episodes, speeches and gestures to produce a violent little elegy that grows both more clever and more sour as it hurtles along."
Kirkus Reviews

"The Brits seem to have a lock on clapped-out intelligence agents, and this savvy literary stand-alone by the author of the 2013 Crime Writers Association Gold Daggerwinning Dead Lions is an affectionate nod to the likes of John le Carr."
Library Journal

"Nobody Walksis a very different kind of thriller: more Richard Stark than John Le Carre. Its stripped downand raw; a satisfying, immersive thriller, bold and brutal in its simplicity."
Pages & Pages Books, Australia

"[Herron] writes with uncommon grace about a man who has no illusions."
Reviewing the Evidence

"[A] beautiful, bleak novel."
Criminal Element

"[A] complex character-driven thriller."
Stop! You're Killing Me

"Tough and melancholya story of remorse and revenge that asks if it is ever too late for a man to make up the lost years."
Life Is Story

"This isa more human storya tragedy, actuallyand Bettanyis given no easy ride."
Crime Fiction Lover

"Smartly written with biting British wit."
Fresh Fiction


Praise for DEAD LIONS

WINNER OF THE 2013 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
A BBC FRONT ROW BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2013
A TIMES CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR
ASUNDAYTIMESTOP 50CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE PAST 5 YEARS

Smart, sharp British wit at its finest. A uniquely brilliant take on the British spy novel.
Cara Black, New York Times bestselling author of Murder Below Montparnasse

Funny, clever . . . Genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose.
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

Delightful . . . with a dry humor reminiscent of Greene and Waugh.
Sunday Times,Best Thrillers and Crime Novels of the Past 5 Years

A great romp.
Jeff Park, BBC Front Row

Clever and funny.
The Times

Herron delivers unbeatable entertainment for thriller fans.
Library Journal, Starred Review

[A] wickedly clever send-up of the classic British spy novel.
Crime Writers' Association

If you like your suspense novels told with a smart dash of wit and sarcasm, filled with lots of twists and turns, Herron's your man.
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Author Bio

Mick Herronis a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of six books in the Slough House series (Slow Horses,Dead Lions,Real Tigers,Spook Street,London Rules, and the novellaThe List) and four Oxford mysteries (Down Cemetery Road,The Last Voice You Hear,Why We Die, andSmoke and Whispers), as well as the standalone novelsReconstruction,Nobody WalksandThis Is What Happened. His workhas won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller,and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, andbeen nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.