Nobody Walks (Soho Crime)

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Long stretches of boredom interspersed with moments of panic. That too, summed up much of his own career.

Books by Mick Herron (Author of Slow Horses) - Goodreads Books by Mick Herron (Author of Slow Horses) - Goodreads

This is good business, . . . The Circle, they’re Google. They’re Apple. You don’t want to go head to head with them. You want to stand shoulder to shoulder.’” If you like your suspense novels told with a smart dash of wit and sarcasm, filled with lots of twists and turns, Herron’s your man.”A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read. In Herron’s terrific, and terrifically funny, fourth Slough House novel (after 2016’s Real Tigers), London’s intelligence teams are on full alert after a suicide bomber kills dozens in a Continue reading » Nobody Walks is listed on GoodReads as 2.6 in the series. So, to be even more precise, it should be between Dead Lions and Real Tigers but after the novella The List (Slough House #2.5). I enjoyed Nobody Walks. It’s not in the stellar class of most of the Slough House series, but it’s a very good thriller which fleshes out some familiar characters – most notably Dame Ingrid Tearney and J.K. Coe.

Nobody Walks by Mick Herron | Hachette UK

Bettany) let Flea lead him upstairs, where the windows were untinted, and the view was of rooftops across the canal. What had once been factories were now flats, though retained the outward appearance of industry. But an industry tamed, its corners waxed and polished. I read Nobody Walks in one afternoon. It was dark, funny and totally unputdownable. There were even links to Slough House which was great. I enjoyed the writing which is always to the point, the humour which is often very British and the characters. We hardly meet Flea but she is delightful. Tom Bettany is one of those main characters you could make a series about. And as for Dame Ingrid Tearney - well...… Starred Review. [A] superb thriller... Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today." - Publishers Weekly It’s a bit grim, but a good read, and there are even a few passing references to some Slough House characters, which is fun for fans like me.He’d spent the better part of a decade taking [X X] off the board only to find that others had filled the gap. The world might technically be a safer place, but you’d need pretty sophisticated measuring equipment to be sure.” Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. 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. He is soon convinced that Liam was murdered, and is determined to find out who is responsible. But his questions are upsetting quite a few people, and equipping himself with the necessary announces his return the crime bosses whose long incarceration he effected during his “joe” days. Nobody Walksis a very different kind of thriller: more Richard Stark than John Le Carre. It’s stripped downand raw; a satisfying, immersive thriller, bold and brutal in its simplicity.”

Nobody Walks by Mick Herron | Goodreads

Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. If you haven't read Nobody Walks and you love the Slough House books then make a point of reading it. Both Ingrid Tearney and JK Coe feature. JK Coes first appears in The List, and then in this, before finally appearing as one of the slow horses in Real Tigers. In this book, readers discover what happened to JK Coe prior to becoming a slow horse and why he is a little, ahem, jumpy. Ingrid Tearney is at her manipulative and conniving best. Funny, clever . . . Genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose.”

Herron must have been feeling younger than his years when he wrote Nobody Walks. Because compared with the intricate and byzantine plots in his Slough House novels, Nobody Walks appeared as a straightforward hunt of a father on a vigilante crusade after the killer of his only son. Of course, there were some truly unexpected surprises courtesy of Herron's imagination, but overall this was a revenge mission with some special challenges. This is a grim, grim story, without any of the humour that lightens the main Slough House series, or the of-the-moment political commentary that makes those books so relevant. It also serves as a fine riposte to series like 'Spooks' which gives us noble heroes putting their lives on the line for the greater good - here we're grubbing in the dirt and there's nothing to separate the Service under Ingrid Tearney's maleficent and self-serving rule from the East End gangsters and Russian mafia hoods she's supposedly fighting against.

NOBODY WALKS | Kirkus Reviews NOBODY WALKS | Kirkus Reviews

Tough and melancholy—a story of remorse and revenge that asks if it is ever too late for a man to make up the lost years.”Herron (Dead Lions, 2013, etc.) 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. But the McGarry clan wasn't the only party interested in Bettany's return to the UK. The Head of MI5, Dame Ingrid Tearney, and another recurring MI5 staffer also popped up. Tearney has been mentioned in the Slough House novels but usually from the perspective of her envious subordinate Diana Taverner. This was the first glimpse into her head and it was in keeping with somebody as the leader of a spook agency. 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.” Herron has frequently been compared to le Carré, but I’ve often felt that that was just lazy thinking because although they’re both fine writers and take espionage as their subject, the style and approach of the Slough House novels is very different from le Carré. Here, Herron produces a thoughtful, serious and penetrating character study of Bettany which is more reminiscent of le Carré. Herron also builds a fine, tense plot peopled with well drawn characters and which refuses to give easy, neat answers.