HERRON, Mick. The Secret Hours. London: Baskerville [John Murray]. 2023.
8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the unclipped dustwrapper; pp. [6], 393, [1]; signed without dedication in blue ink to the title page; a fine copy in like wrapper.
First edition, first printing of Herron’s standalone espionage thriller; No. 2454 of 2,500 hand-numbered copies signed by the author to be sold in Independent Bookshops.
Two years ago, the Monochrome inquiry was set up to investigate the British secret service. Monochrome's mission was to ferret out misconduct, allowing the civil servants seconded to the inquiry, Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, unfettered access to confidential information in the service archives. But with progress blocked at every turn, Monochrome is circling the drain . . . Until the OTIS file appears out of nowhere.
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