Spook Street by Mick Herron
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Spook Street
- Slough House, Book 4
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Series: Slough House, Book 4
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
Publisher's Summary
Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. And he's not as defenceless as they might think.
Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day. He knows better than most that this is no vulnerable old man.
'The old bastard' has raised his grandson with a head full of guts and glory. But far from joining Spook Street, River Cartwright is consigned to Lamb's team of no-hopers at Slough House. So it's Lamb they call to identify the body when Cartwright's panic button raises the alarm at Service HQ. And Lamb who will do whatever he thinks necessary to protect an agent in peril....
©2017 Mick Herron (P)2017 Isis Publishing Ltd
Orca
Laconic prose brings the binds of toil to life
Mick Herron’s series is a fine read/listen for those who enjoy the illumination of the culpable character – fallen along the way into a sort of lost and found, stumbling toward deliverance of past wrongs and failings through good deeds, or at least those that will avoid iniquity.
All through a lens of acerbic wit that, at least to this Londoner, sound as close to home as Orwell and Greene, the writers as well as the poncey grocers.
Seán Barrett is consistently ace.
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Clive Byerley
Grimy, Grim and Great!
Herron draws you in to this sad bunch of lovers led by the repulsive-but-brilliant central character,Lamb.
wonderful black humour and unexpected twists
Rarely have I enjoyed any series as much.
Highly recommended.