The Secret Hours: The Gripping New Thriller from the No.1 Bestseller Mick Herron
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Publishing Details
The Secret Hours: The Gripping New Thriller from the No.1 Bestseller Mick Herron
By (Author) Mick Herron
John Murray Press
Baskerville
12th September 2023
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
400
Width 152mm, Height 232mm, Spine 30mm
510g
Description
*PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL FROM MICK HERRON, AUTHOR OF THE #1 BESTSELLING SLOUGH HOUSE THRILLERS*
'Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction' Sunday Times'The foremost living spy novelist in the English language' New StatesmanMonochrome is a busted flush - an inquiry into the misdeeds of the intelligence services, established by a vindictive prime minister but rendered toothless by a wily chief spook. For years it has ground away uselessly, interviewing witnesses with nothing to offer, producing a report with nothing to say, while the civil servants at its helm see their careers disappearing into a black hole. And then the OTIS file falls into their hands . . . What secrets does this hold that see a long-redundant spy being chased through Devon's green lanes in the dark What happened in a newly reunified Berlin that someone is desperate to keep under wraps And who will win the battle for the soul of the secret service - or was that decided a long time ago Spies and pen-pushers, politicians and PAs, high-flyers, time-servers and burn-outs . . . They all have jobs to do in the daylight. But what they do in the secret hours reveals who they really are.'All Herron's trademark strengths are here: tension, intrigue, observation, humour, absurdity . . . and pitch-perfect prose' Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels'A deft knockout of a story . . . Mick Herron is one of the best writers of spy fiction working today' Martin Cruz Smith, author of Gorky Park'I doubt I'll read a more enjoyable novel all year. The Secret Hours has it all ' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train'The Secret Hours [is] Mick Herron at his best' Michael Connelly, author of Desert StarReviews
A deft knockout of a story, with an arc of history, written with humour and style. Mick Herron is one of the best writers of spy fiction working today -- Martin Cruz Smith, author of GORKY PARK
I doubt I'll read a more enjoyable novel all year. The Secret Hours has it all: thrilling action scenes, crackling dialogue, characters to infuriate and beguile, and a neatly intricate plot. And through it all cuts Herron's acerbic wit, its effect heightened by the glimpses he allows us, from time to time, from his world to ours -- Paula Hawkins, author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Great Britain has a long, rich history of how-it-really-works espionage fiction, and Mick Herron - stealthy as a secret agent - has written himself to the very top of the list. If you haven't already been recruited, start with The Secret Hours - all Herron's trademark strengths are here: tension, intrigue, observation, humour, absurdity . . . and pitch-perfect prose -- Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher novels
The Secret Hours is wonderful. It's Mick Herron at his best, taking us into a dark world where there is high action, a spinning moral compass, and hidden motives on every page. And, oh, yes, the fun - Herron's greatest talent may be the examination of serious things with a perfectly wry sense of humour -- Michael Connelly, author of DESERT STAR
Praise for Mick Herron:
Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction * Sunday Times *
Herron has certainly devised the most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley * The Times *
Herron's novels are genuinely thrilling * Daily Telegraph *
Britain's finest living thriller writer * Sunday Express *
Author Bio
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 20 languages, and are the basis of a major TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He is also the author of the Zoe Boehm series, and the standalone novels Reconstruction and This is What Happened. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
