Herron - Spook Street (Slough House), PB

2017

Awards
2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller (nominee)
2018 British Book Award Crime and Thriller Book of the Year (shortlist)
2018 CrimeFest: Last Laugh Award
2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist)
2017 CWA Gold Dagger (shortlist)
2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Twenty years retired from the Intelligence Service, David Cartwright still knows where all the bones are buried. But when he forgets that secrets are supposed to stay hidden, there's suddenly a target on his back.

The 'Old Bastard' raised his grandson to be a hero, not a slow horse. Now, far from joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is part of Jackson Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House. Which doesn't mean he won't ditch everything and go rogue when his grandfather comes under threat.

Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day, and knows better than most that this is no innocent old man. So when a panic button raises the alarm at Intelligence Service HQ, it's Lamb who's called on to identify the body. And it's Lamb who'll do whatever's necessary to protect an agent in peril.