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The drop: Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter. But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly, he sets in train events which will alter lives. Bachelor himself, a hair's breadth away from sleeping in his car, is clawing his way back to stability; Hannah Weiss, the double agent whose recruitment was his only success, is starting to enjoy the secrets and lies her role demands; and Lech Wicinski, an Intelligence Service analyst, finds that a simple favour for an old acquaintance might derail his career. Meanwhile, Lady Di Taverner is trying to keep the Service on an even keel, and if that means throwing the odd crew member overboard, well: collateral damage is her speciality. A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information. It's also what happens just before you hit the ground.
The list: Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account - and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.… (más)
When I first discovered Mick Herron’s ‘Slough House’ series of books, I got completely hooked, and read all six of them in a binge lasting 24 days. And now, like so many other fans of his espionage fiction (often compared — and rightly so — to John LeCarré), I am forced to wait impatiently for the next book to come out.
Fortunately, Herron has written several novellas to fill the gap, and the two included in this volume — and they really are two chapters of the same story — are exactly what those addicted to Jackson Lamb and his motley crew of secret agents need.
There’s a plot twist or two (I won’t give these away) and the book feels very up-to-date, with its references to Brexit. Lamb’s appearances are brief and he’s not the centre of the story, which is fine.
My appetite now whetted, I cannot wait for the 7th full-length novel in the ‘Slough House’ series to appear next month. ( )
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Those who knew him said it was how he'd have wanted to go.
(The List)
Seasoned Park watchers later said that the affair really began in Fischer's, that beloved 'café and konditorei' that bestows a touch of early twentieth-century Vienna on the foothills of twenty-first-century Marylebone High Street; its warm interior, its spring yellows and glazed browns, a welcome refuge from the winter-drizzled pavements.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Deep inside its beating heart, she hugged secret knowledge to herself. (The List)
The drop: Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter. But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly, he sets in train events which will alter lives. Bachelor himself, a hair's breadth away from sleeping in his car, is clawing his way back to stability; Hannah Weiss, the double agent whose recruitment was his only success, is starting to enjoy the secrets and lies her role demands; and Lech Wicinski, an Intelligence Service analyst, finds that a simple favour for an old acquaintance might derail his career. Meanwhile, Lady Di Taverner is trying to keep the Service on an even keel, and if that means throwing the odd crew member overboard, well: collateral damage is her speciality. A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information. It's also what happens just before you hit the ground.
The list: Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account - and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.
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Fortunately, Herron has written several novellas to fill the gap, and the two included in this volume — and they really are two chapters of the same story — are exactly what those addicted to Jackson Lamb and his motley crew of secret agents need.
There’s a plot twist or two (I won’t give these away) and the book feels very up-to-date, with its references to Brexit. Lamb’s appearances are brief and he’s not the centre of the story, which is fine.
My appetite now whetted, I cannot wait for the 7th full-length novel in the ‘Slough House’ series to appear next month. (