THE SECRET HOURS
by Mick Herron (2023)
Some things have remained buried for years. Like the whereabouts of the mysterious Karl Schenker or the facts surrounding Molly Doran’s missing limbs. So, when a go-nowhere formal inquiry receives an anonymous file loaded with long concealed information, which appears to the “product” of the Service, eyebrows are raised and proper questions begin to be asked. In turn, causing alarm bells to ring loudly all across London, including within the spy universe. As news of this development leaks into the ears of interested parties, a killer is forced to make a bold move. Will he succeed? Incorporates the backstories of Molly Doran, David Cartwright, and Jackson Lamb. A naïve Molly Doran, on her first overseas assignment, is sent to Berlin to “gather the facts” by her boss, the treacherous David Cartwright, who is working the angles from Home. And, a much younger Jackson Lamb, living on his wits in Berlin just after the fall of the Wall, is pursuing the man who killed his joe. Fiction. 391 pages.
DETAILS:
Title: The secret hours
Year: 2023
Author: Mick Herron
Pages: 391
Book review by Keith Salter
Punk Human 
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