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The worst smell in the world is dead Badger and so opens the story.

Finishing the Slow Horses series have taken Berengaria’s advice to hunt out more books by Mick Herron. This one I found in my local library and immediately joined again to take it out.

This standalone work starts with a great opening chapter of an ex spook being hunted in Devon. A current day Inquiry into the Secret Service - Monochrome. Initiated by an unhappy PM (Boris Johnson). Then takes us back to Berlin in the �90’s. With Jackson Lamb with a different name hunting for the Stasi agent responsible for the death of one his Joes. We even find out how Molly Doran lost her legs.

The story didn’t have same impact without the Slow Horses characters and quick wit and repartee. But it was a cracker anyway. With First Desk continuing to be a dangerous character.

More books to find until a new Slow Horses comes out.