Nobody Walks (Soho Crime)

Product Information

Slow Horses was published by Constable in 2010, but the firm declined the opportunity to publish the next book in the series in the United Kingdom due to disappointing sales of its predecessor. Soho published the Slough House novels in the United States, and John Murray started republishing the series in the UK from 2015. [7]

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Herron must have been feeling younger than his years when he wrote Nobody Walks. Because compared with the intricate and byzantine plots in his Slough House novels, Nobody Walks appeared as a straightforward hunt of a father on a vigilante crusade after the killer of his only son. Of course, there were some truly unexpected surprises courtesy of Herron's imagination, but overall this was a revenge mission with some special challenges. 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. 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. All across the USA, people are showing up dead. The deaths don't appear to be connected in any way until one particular death occurs and gets the Secretary of Defense's attention. He arranges for a task force to investigate.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. If you like your suspense novels told with a smart dash of wit and sarcasm, filled with lots of twists and turns, Herron’s your man.” Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a degree in English. [1] [2] [3] Career [ edit ] Location of the fictional Slough House (Aldersgate Street, London) By eight the first swell of workers had flooded the city and the second was gathering force. The underground, arteries hardening, was a wheezing queue of trains in the which passengers, squeezed into awkward shapes, counted down the stations of the cross.”

Nobody Walks by Mick Herron | Waterstones

Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. 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. Spook Street is one of the darker novels and what little comic relief there is, is provided by Roddy Ho getting a girlfriend, a plot thread which is pulled in the follow up novel, London Rules. It also lays the ground for the events of Joe Country, and at the same time introduces a series villain, ex-CIA operative Frank Harkness. This novel is a series highlight for me, and went on to win the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award as well as being shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, The British Book Awards and The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. 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.It’s a bit grim, but a good read, and there are even a few passing references to some Slough House characters, which is fun for fans like me.

Nobody Walks by Mick Herron - Publishers Weekly

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. Looking forward to starting to read this author. He was mentioned in the most recent book by Ann Cleeves. And she named Slow Horses as the book of interest so I can start at the beginning! Reply Bettany) let Flea lead him upstairs, where the windows were untinted, and the view was of rooftops across the canal. What had once been factories were now flats, though retained the outward appearance of industry. But an industry tamed, its corners waxed and polished. 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.”