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  • Bad Actors

  • Slough House, Book 8
  • By: Mick Herron
  • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
  • Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (81 ratings)

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Bad Actors

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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Publisher's summary

*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*

The eighth book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling Slough House THRILLER series by Mick Herron, who has been called 'Britain's finest living thriller writer' [Sunday Express]

POLITICS IS A DANGEROUS GAME

In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere.

A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar.

Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation.

In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.

©2022 Mick Herron (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton
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Critic reviews

"Herron has certainly devised the most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley." (The Times)

"Herron's novels are genuinely thrilling." (Daily Telegraph)

"Britain's finest living thriller writer." (Sunday Express)

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Great Narration Prefect

Enjoyable story and the Narration is prefect for the text. Brings the spy world alive

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Well worth the asking price.

The book is the same quality I have come to expect from this talented author. This particular book felt like a bridging storyline to something bigger, which I can't wait for.

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As always, Herron writes a ripper spook novel

Different to most Slow Horses novels … but the usual suspects are here, outdoing themselves as always

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I’ve read all the Slow Horses … they were brilliant, but this book
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I was irritated by the narrator’s monotone , unusual for Barrett maybe he was bored to tears too.
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