Bad Actors
- Author Mick Herron
- Narrator Sean Barrett
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 10 hours and 28 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Comic (humorous) crime and mystery, Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
The eighth book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling Slough House THRILLER series by Mick Herron, who has been called 'Britain's finest living thriller writer' [Sunday Express]
'Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction' Sunday Times
POLITICS IS A DANGEROUS GAME
In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere.
A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar.
Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation.
In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.
'Herron has certainly devised the most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley' The Times
'Herron's novels are genuinely thrilling' Daily Telegraph
'Britain's finest living thriller writer' Sunday Express
(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton
Critics Review
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Bad Actors took a big step into literary excellence. The dazzling, Conrad-like structure turned an entertainment into a major literary statement
The Spectator -
Bad Actors is both thriller and anti-thriller: subverting and denying the treats you expect from the genre, but then providing them in a twisted form after all
Sunday Times -
Jackson Lamb is the greatest literary creation of this century . . . Herron is master of the metaphor and his extraordinarily well-plotted books are always centred on real-life events
Great British Life -
An ingeniously structured caper
Mail on Sunday -
Satire at its best along with him being one of the best spy thriller writers around
Shots Mag -
Britain’s finest contemporary thriller series
Daily Express
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