Bad Actors

Mick Herron

John Murray £18.99

Spy novels based on the conflict between London and Moscow have seemed old hat in recent years. Not any more. Herron’s latest Slough House epic mixes his trademark black comedy with insights into the tangled moral universe we inhabit, full of oligarchs and KGB apparatchiks, sinister special advisers and bumbling spooks. New readers attracted by the TV version of Slow Horses will find Herron at his very best.