Nobody Walks (Soho Crime)

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Even if Slough House means nothing to you I'd still recommend Nobody Walks as a standalone thriller. It's very clever, has some good twists, and builds to a tense and satisfying conclusion. I never did warm to the people, but I did find it intriguing discovering the connections between them. There’s a gaming mogul, for whom his son worked, and some kind of criminal network that he wonders if his son was connected to. We see a couple of those crims discussing a bigger network. 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. The suspicious death of his son brings an undercover spook for MI-5’s Special Ops out of retirement with a vengeance.

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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 »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.

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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. 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. Tearney] resembled the more benevolent kind of witch, the type to dish out helpful potions when love let you down. I am also a fan of the ambiguous ending, so despised by so many people. I think we can all agree that Tom Bettany isn't going to like whatever is coming. We don't need to “witness" the result to know that.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.” Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Funny, clever . . . Genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose.” Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

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almost 4 ☆ That was how the young saw things. If that, then this. If this, then the next thing. Life, to the inexperienced, happened in straight lines. You can find a recent podcast on Irish Times with Herron when he released Joe Country, one of the Slough House series, a favorite of mine. Thoughts became rituals in themselves. You plodded the same course over and over, like any dumb beast or wind-up toy. Starred Review. Herron's remarkable novel has enough suspense, action, and deductive dazzlement to keep genre fans happy. But be warned: these are deep waters, and this is not nodding-off, night-table reading." - Booklist 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.Bettany had worked deep-cover, infiltrating the network of arms dealers, the Brothers McGarry, and from the outset he is suspicious of his son’s death: was it revenge because of him? He sees shady characters at the crematorium, and tries to get answers from his son’s employer – the creator of computer games, and to trace the source of the drugs – pitting him against the London underworld (Bishop is a stand-out), Baltic drug dealers, and the ruthless Dame Ingrid Tearney (First desk at MI5). Like a tethered goat, “Dame Spook” uses the gullible JK Coe of Psych Eval as her go-between and Bettany – signalling Coe’s eventual fate as a “Slow Horse”. 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.” 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. If you are a fan of the Slough House series like me, you need to read this if you haven't, if for no other reason because it features JK Coe, and tells about his ordeal that landed him in Slough House. It mentions a few other familiar names, and has a very similar style. Undercover, after all, was what Bettany did when his own life failed him. Undercover meant dropping out of sight, leading somebody else's life in a succession of foreign cities. It meant leaving everything behind.