Nobody Walks: Mick Herron

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His arrival in the city ignites the interests of many, from mob bosses to the upper echelons of MI5.

Dame Ingrid Tearney – Head of MI5 and someone with so many nefarious plans in the air she could join the circus as a juggler.It’s all third-person, so we can see different points of view and eavesdrop on the thoughts of a few characters, although you wouldn’t really want to live in the heads of any of them, including Bettany. Bettany might have thought he’d left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away. He is the author of six books in the Slough House series as well as a mystery series set in Oxford featuring Sarah Tucker and/or P.

I suppose if I had a choice between a second book and another Slough House book, I'd choose the latter. Fans of the Jackson Lamb series will be pleased to know that this story is set in the same universe, with at least six names known from that series playing roles or rating mentions here, one of whom comprehensively proves that the fate meted out to them in a later book is absolutely a just desert, if insufficiently punitive. Although this is not an official Slough House book, it does live in the same universe and introduces some important characters that appear in later books. Tom, though, had been ex-Service before he severed all ties and, at his son’s flat, something sets off an alarm bell for him. I am a huge fan of the Slough House series and, having devoured the main books, went back to discover more by him – those books, like his novellas, which touch on the series, but move parallel to it or, like this title, flesh out some of the character’s back stories – in this case, that of J.He might have thought he'd left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody really just walks away. Such things – the treatment of suspects, the over-rigorous pursuit of testimony – did not take place on English soil, as she had stated more than once to more than one committee. Nobody Walks is a completely independent novel even though its MI5 is the same as the one in Herron's Slough House series. Undercover meant dropping out of sight, leading somebody else's life in a succession of foreign cities. He knew that, as much as anyone knew anything about the Cousins’ Circle, which was Russian based, multiethnic, multinational, and enjoyed the double charm of having its existence doubted as much as its reach was feared.