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NOBODY WALKS

Mick Herron

Set in the same fictional London as his CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Slough House series, Mick Herron now introduces Tom Bettany, an ex-spook with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son’s death.
Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn’t know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead—Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking pot.

Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home to London to find out the truth about his son’s death. Maybe it’s the guilt he feels about losing touch with Liam that’s gnawing at him, or maybe he’s actually put his finger on a labyrinthine plot, but either way he’ll get to the bottom of the tragedy, no matter whose feathers he has to ruffle. But more than a few people are interested to hear Bettany is back in town, from incarcerated mob bosses to those in the highest echelons of MI5. He might have thought he’d left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.

Mick Herron was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of two books in the Slough House series, Slow Horses and Dead Lions, the novella The List, a mystery series set in Oxford, and Reconstruction, a standalone novel. He lives in Oxford and works in London.
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Published 2015-02-01 by Soho Crime

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Published 2015-02-01 by Soho Crime

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Herron’s remarkable novel has enough suspense, action, and deductive dazzlement to keep genre fans happy. But be warned: these are deep waters, and this is not nodding-off, night-table reading…

NOBODY WALKS has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the best thriller of the year. The winner will be announced in October. Read more...

The Brits seem to have a lock on clapped-out intelligence agents, and this savvy literary standalone by the author of the 2013 CWA Gold Dagger winning DEAD LIONS is an affectionate nod to the likes of John le Carre.

Herron strips his revenge story to the bone, paring away unnecessary characters, episodes, speeches and gestures to produce a violent little elegy that grows both more clever and more sour as it hurtles along.

...superb thriller...Well-drawn characters complement plotting that’s convoluted but never opaque or formulaic. Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today. Read more...