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The Secret Hours
A gripping standalone spy thriller from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Slow Horses, with a riveting reveal about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin—an absolute must-read for Slough House fans.
New from the author of Slow Horses, now an Apple Original series from Apple TV+, starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas.
Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical over-reaching" by the British Secret Service. Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer—and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so.
But MI5’s formidable First Desk did not become Britain’s top spy by accident, and she has successfully thwarted the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that created Monochrome has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust—and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects are washed away by the pounding London rain.
Until the eve of Monochrome’s shuttering, when an MI5 case file appears without explanation. It is the buried history of a classified operation in 1994 Berlin—an operation that ended in tragedy and scandal, whose cover-up has rewritten thirty years of Service history.
The Secret Hours is a dazzling entry point into Mick Herron’s body of work, a standalone spy thriller that is at once unnerving, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny. It is also the breathtaking secret history that Slough House fans have been waiting for.
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Reviews
The plot has numerous twists and turns but it all come together in the end. The author uses taut dialogue and sarcasm to comment on modern Britain. Well worth the time it took to read it.
By ChgoLaw67
I love the Slough House series, and this provides an excellent foundation for the series. As always, excellent, amusing writing and fantastic characters. Thanks.
By Auggie's Man
The Secret Hours is an excellent offering in the Slow Horses world. It starts a bit slow but as soon as the first hint of connection to the Slough House world is unveiled, the pace picks up like a runaway fright train! Well done
By Matt742
Great read
By bfe34512
Some writers of thrillers and espionage are good at describing action. The best, and Herron is certainly in this class, put the reader in the middle of it with only a minimal compass.
By burtmayne