The Secret Hours

(Author)
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Product Details

Price
$27.95  $25.99
Publisher
Soho Crime
Publish Date
Pages
384
Dimensions
0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches | 1.25 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781641295215

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About the Author

Mick Herron is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of the Slough House espionage series, four Oxford mysteries, and three standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, the Theakston's Novel of the Year Award, the Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the Ellery Queen Readers Award and the USC Libraries Scripter Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry and Shamus Awards. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.

Reviews

Praise for "The Secret Hours"

"A deft knockout of a story, with an arc of history, written with humor and style. Mick Herron is one of the best writers of spy fiction working today."
--Martin Cruz Smith

Praise for Mick Herron

"Intricate plotting, full of twists . . . Herron can certainly write a real spy story, with all the misdirection and sleight of hand that requires. But it's the surly Slough House mood, the eccentric characters, and Herron's very black, very dry sense of humor that made me read one after the other without a break."
--Laura Miller, Slate.com

"Out of a wickedly imagined version of MI5, [Herron] has spun works of diabolical plotting and high-spirited cynicism, their pages filled with sardonic wit, their characters approaching the surreal."
--The Wall Street Journal

"The sharpest spy fiction since John le Carré."
--NPR's Fresh Air

"Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way . . . In Herron's book, there is no hiding under the desk."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Stylish and engaging."
--The Washington Post

"[Herron] really is funny and his cynicism is belied, here and there, by flashes of the mingled tenderness and anger that seem to define Britain's post-Brexit self-reflections."
--USA Today