Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden ''Mick Herron is the John le Carre of our generation'' Val McDermid ''The best thriller writer in Britain today'' Sunday Express **** At Regent''s Park, the Intelligence Service HQ, new First Desk Claude Whelan is learning the job the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered Prime Minister, he''s facing attack from all directions: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat''s wife, a tabloid columnist, who''s crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who''s alert for Claude''s every stumble. Meanwhile, the country''s being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks. Over at Slough House, the last stop for washed up spies, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they''re about to rediscover their greatest strength - making a bad situation much, much worse. ''Dazzlingly inventive'' Sunday Times

Vorwort
The fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)

Autorentext
Mick Herron is the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have won 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 Zoë Boehm series, and the standalone novels Reconstruction and This is What Happened. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

Zusammenfassung
The fifth book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)