Clown Town (Slough House)

ISBN: 1641297263

Author: Herron, Mick

Condition: New

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMay be the best Slow Horses book to date.-The Wall Street JournalTHE NEW NOVEL IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TVJackson Lamb and the bad spies of Slough House are caught in a deadly battle between MI5's secret past and its murky future in this gripping, hilarious, and heartbreaking thriller by Mick Herron, the le Carr of the future (BBC).Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies arent much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright, the late retired head of MI5, used to tell his grandson. He forgot to add that old spies can be dangerous, too, especially if theyve fallen on hard times-as River Cartwright is about to learn.David Cartwright, long buried, has left his library to the Spooks College in Oxford, and now one of the books is missing. Or perhaps it never existed. River, once a slow horse of Slough House, MI5s outpost for demoted and disgraced spies, has some time to kill while awaiting medical clearance to return to work, and starts investigating the secrets of his grandfathers library.Over at the Park, MI5 First Desk Diana Taverner is in a pickle. An operation carried out during the height of the Troubles laid bare the ugly side of state security, and those involved are threatening to expose details. But every threat hides an opportunity, and Taverner has come up with a scheme. All she needs is the right dupe to get caught holding the bag.Jackson Lamb, the enigmatic and odiferous head of Slough House, has no plans to send in the clowns. On the other hand, if the clowns ignore his instructions, any harm that befalls them is hardly his fault. But theyre his clowns. And if they dont all make it home, therell be a reckoning.