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The Drop
The Drop: A Slough House Novella | Mick Herron
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'It is time Mick Herron was recognised in his own right as the best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday Express 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.
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overtheedge
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Interesting, quick book in Soho Crime series, Slough House#5.5.....
A guy sees another guy passing an envelope to someone in a surreptitious way, and begins to try to find out what is going on......
#teamslaughter #scarathon @Clwojick #themebook

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Moving on to the next instalment in the Slough House series, The Drop. Bet this will be as good if not better!

* Update* A pretty fast read and a good intro to a new Slow Horse member (the poor thing....!). However, this novella has a loose end which I suspect will set the scene for the next instalment to this series.

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IReadThereforeIBlog
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Mick Herron‘s latest addition to THE SLOUGH HOUSE SERIES is a tightly written short story that picks up where THE LIST left off with Herron‘s customary wit and fast pacing but while it‘s enjoyable, it‘s more of an episode in a side series than a story in its own right and expensive for what it is. Unless you‘re a hard core fan, my advice would be to wait for these novellas to be amalgamated into a collection rather than buying them separately.

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Another brief but engrossing instalment in the saga of The Slough House ‘slow horses‘, although Jackson Lamb is conspicuous by his absence. See my Goodreads review at: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37772647-the-drop. #mickherron #thedrop #fiction #sloughhouse #jacksonlamb #slowhorses #espionage #spyfiction #novella #london #spying #spies #civilservice

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Eyejaybee
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Oops! I may have succumbed to the temptation of @muswellhillbookshop when I went to buy some milk. It was Catherine‘s fault really: without her exhortation to ‘stay away from that bookshop‘, the idea would never have occurred to me. #book #books #bookstagram #reading #muswellhillbookshop #muswellhill #n10 #mickherron #anthonyhorowitz #thedrop #louismacneice #lettersfromiceland #thesentenceisdeath #themartiangirl #bookshop #fiction #crimefiction