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Love Mick Herron books, this one made me want to toss it across the room.......I really need to get over my need for the good guys to always win

I‘ve enjoyed every book I‘ve read by Mick Herron, and this was no exception. It was fast-paced, tightly plotted and full of twists and turns. It didn‘t quite have the same amount of black humour and oddness of his Slough House books, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it.

#TBRPile 📚 “The news had come hundreds of miles to sit waiting for days in a mislaid phone. And there it lingered like a moth in a box, weightless, and aching for the light.”

Mick Herron‘s excellent standalone spy thriller includes characters from the SLOUGH HOUSE SERIES, offering background on Coe and featuring Ingrid Tearney and Sam Chapman. The plot twists and turns neatly with Herron setting up strands and returning to them in unexpected ways and there‘s a sense of sadness and regret going through the book, together a bleak cynicism such that the open ending doesn‘t leave the reader with much reassurance or hope.

Tom Bethany, Liam‘s father, is working off the radar in France when he gets the news his son has fallen off a balcony to his death. Tom flies immediately to London to find out the truth and becomes entangled in deceit, lies, betrayal, revenge between MI5, drug dealers, gang bosses he‘s put away, and game designers. Bleak, violent; heartbreaking. Nobody walks away clean.

No reading so far today. I was swamped at work. Afterwards I went to DSW to get sneakers for a weight lifting class at the gym on Thursday. And then this happened. I'll eat the 🍪 while I read a little later.