In this standalone spy thriller, Mick Herron, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Horses, brings to life a man with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son's death.
Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesnât know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is deadâLiam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking pot.
Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home to London to find out the truth about his sonâs death. Maybe itâs the guilt he feels about losing touch with Liam thatâs gnawing at him, or maybe heâs actually put his finger on a labyrinthine plot, but either way heâll get to the bottom of the tragedy, no matter whose feathers he has to ruffle. But more than a few people are interested to hear Bettany is back in town, from incarcerated mob bosses to those in the highest echelons of MI5. He might have thought heâd left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.
In this standalone spy thriller, Mick Herron, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Horses, brings to life a man with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son's death.
Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesnât know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is deadâLiam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking pot.
Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home to London to find out the truth about his sonâs death. Maybe itâs the guilt he feels about losing touch with Liam thatâs gnawing at him, or maybe heâs actually put his finger on a labyrinthine plot, but either way heâll get to the bottom of the tragedy, no matter whose feathers he has to ruffle. But more than a few people are interested to hear Bettany is back in town, from incarcerated mob bosses to those in the highest echelons of MI5. He might have thought heâd left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.