Secret Hours by Mick Herron

An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller

*A gripping standalone thriller with a riveting reveal about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin – a dazzling entry-point to Mick Herron’s writing and an unmissable read for Slough House fans.*

A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime

‘I doubt I’ll read a more enjoyable novel all year’ Paula Hawkins

‘Pitch-perfect’ Lee Child

‘Terrific’ The Times

‘Never has a work of popular fiction delighted me more’ The Spectator

‘A modern rival to Ian Fleming and John le Carre’ Sunday Times

‘One of his best books yet’ Daily Telegraph

Two years ago, the Monochrome inquiry was set up to investigate the British secret service. Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out misconduct, allowing the civil servants seconded to the inquiry, Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, unfettered access to confidential information in the service archives.

But with progress blocked at every turn, Monochrome is circling the drain . . . Until the OTIS file appears out of nowhere.

What classified secrets does OTIS hold that see a long-redundant spy being chased through Devon’s green lanes in the dark? What happened in a newly reunified Berlin that someone is desperate to keep under wraps? And who will win the battle for the soul of the secret service – or was that decided a long time ago?

Spies and pen-pushers, politicians and PAs, high-flyers, time-servers and burn-outs . . . They all have jobs to do in the daylight. But what they do in the secret hours reveals who they really are.

A new standalone novel from ‘Britain’s greatest living thriller writer’ and author of the bestselling Slough House series, now a TV series starring Gary Oldman

About the Author: Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award, two CWA Daggers, been published in over 20 languages, and are the basis of a major TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He is also the author of the Zoe Boehm series, and the standalone novels Reconstruction and This is What Happened. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

14 Mar 2024
 

The Secret Hours: The Instant Sunday Times Bestselling Thriller from the Author of Slow Horses by Mick Herron ISBN 9781399800549