Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ''A pitch-perfect espionage thriller'' Sunday Times ''The foremost living spy novelist in the English language'' New Statesman *** In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere. 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. Includes the short story Standing by the Wall: A Slough House Interlude* ''This is entertainment of the highest class'' Literary Review ''The man is a genius'' The Spectator

Vorwort
Bad Actors is #1 bestselling novel and the eighth book in the critically acclaimed Slough House series by Mick Herron, now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman

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Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over twenty-five languages and are the basis of the award-winning TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. Among his other novels are the Zoë Boehm series, also now adapted for TV starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, and the standalone novels The Secret Hours and Nobody Walks. Mick's awards include the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

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THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction' Sunday Times

Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman

In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere.

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.

'A pitch-perfect espionage thriller' Sunday Times

'This is entertainment of the highest class' Literary Review

'[Bad Actors] deserves the bouquets that will come its way, and Herron is building a series with lasting resonance' The Times

'One of the most consistently enjoyable literary achievements of the past decade' The Times

'The man is a genius' Spectator

Zusammenfassung
Bad Actors is #1 bestselling novel and the eighth book in the critically acclaimed Slough House series by Mick Herron, now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman