HERRON, Mick. Spook Street. London: John Murray. 2017.
8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dustwrapper; pp. [10], 341, [1]. Signed without dedication in blue ink to the title page; a bright, crisp copy, the cloth and gilt sharp, the pages unmarked; in the unclipped dustwrapper (priced £14.99 to the front flap); a fine copy.
A fine, signed first edition, first printing of the fourth Slough House novel.
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.
Spook Street, is the fourth in the Slough House thriller series, featuring the memorable (and unexpectedly charismatic) character, Jackson Lamb, described by Mark Lawson as a "subversion" of Le Carré's George Smiley, the latter "the humane genius of the British secret service, his worst vice being reading German poetry in the original", while Lamb is, on the face of it, "a bigoted, philistine, morbidly obese, spectacularly flatulent, alcoholic chain-smoker". The Slough House books have recently adapted for a highly acclaimed television series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb.
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