Book jacket image for The Secret Hours by Mick Herron

Soho Crime

9781641295215

STARRED REVIEW

The Secret Hours

Sly and suspenseful, The Secret Hours is both a marvelous standalone novel and a stunning companion to Mick Herron’s Slough House series.

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Review of ‘The Secret Hours’

The Secret Hours is a slow burning, artfully told and explosive excavation of the messy era of post-Cold War espionage. 

In the modern-day British countryside, a spry sexagenarian with combat skills goes on the run after thwarting an attempted abduction from his home in sleepy north…

Interview with Mick Herron

In The Secret Hours, the author reveals the secret backstory of Slough House, his series following MI5 agents who have fallen from grace.

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