02-12-2024, 10:39 AM
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron
Mick Herron writes the Slough Horses series about the British spy agency. On the face of it, The Secret Hours appears to be a sort of spin off from that series. It deals with the Park which is spy headquarter and the boss of the Park, the first chair. The story centers on Monochrome which is an advisory commission set up to look into any wrongdoing at the Park. But any power Monochrome might have had was gutted when the Park basically refused to cooperate. Until that is Monochrome acquires a file from a past case under odd circumstances. The file depicts the goings on in Berlin back in the 1990s just after the wall came down and the hunt for a Stasi agent.
The story is full of the usual less than salubrious characters involved in the spy world. There is also a parallel story of a man living under an assumed name in Devon. One night a group of people try to kidnap him. Eventually all the paths line up for a nice resolution wherein you realize this was the backstory for some of the characters in the Slough House novels.
Mick Herron writes the Slough Horses series about the British spy agency. On the face of it, The Secret Hours appears to be a sort of spin off from that series. It deals with the Park which is spy headquarter and the boss of the Park, the first chair. The story centers on Monochrome which is an advisory commission set up to look into any wrongdoing at the Park. But any power Monochrome might have had was gutted when the Park basically refused to cooperate. Until that is Monochrome acquires a file from a past case under odd circumstances. The file depicts the goings on in Berlin back in the 1990s just after the wall came down and the hunt for a Stasi agent.
The story is full of the usual less than salubrious characters involved in the spy world. There is also a parallel story of a man living under an assumed name in Devon. One night a group of people try to kidnap him. Eventually all the paths line up for a nice resolution wherein you realize this was the backstory for some of the characters in the Slough House novels.
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