Praise for Mick Herron
“Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation.”
—Val McDermid
“Terrific spy novel . . . Sublime dialogue, frictionless plotting.”
—Ian Rankin, via Twitter
“Thoroughly gripping espionage, focused on intelligent plotting over action for its own sake—think le Carré, but with a heartier dash of dry humor.”
—The Seattle Times
“[Herron] is superb at evoking the le Carré-esque air of ennui, cynicism and self-loathing which permeates an intelligence service on its uppers, but which remains—the alternative being too awful to contemplate—duty bound to keep calm and carry on.”
—The Irish Times
“It’s not often a reviewer can say, ‘You’ve never read anything quite like this’ but it’s a safe encomium to use in the case of Mick Herron. The author’s idiosyncratic writing is unique in his genre: the spycraft of le Carré refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.”
—Financial Times
“Brilliant.”
—The Boston Globe
