Nobody Walks [Paperback]

Set in the same fictional London as his CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Slough House spy series, Mick Herron now introduces Tom Bettany, a man with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son’s death.

Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn’t know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead—Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking pot.

Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home to London to find out the truth about his son’s death. Maybe it’s the guilt he feels about losing touch with Liam that’s gnawing at him, or maybe he’s actually put his finger on a labyrinthine plot, but either way he’ll get to the bottom of the tragedy, no matter whose feathers he has to ruffle. But more than a few people are interested to hear Bettany is back in town, from incarcerated mob bosses to those in the highest echelons of MI5. He might have thought he’d left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.Praise forNobody Walks

2015 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award Shortlist
Nancy Pearl Best Reads of 2015
A Booklist Best Crime Novel of 2015
One ofBooklist's  101 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade

Fast-moving and deeply cynical, yet thoroughly heartfelt, this is a first-rate modern thriller.
—Daily Mail

Blackly comic.
—The Sunday Times

English author Mick Herron writes thrillers that are smart in the places that count. Smart prose, smart plotting.
—Toronto Star

Enough suspense and action to keep thriller fans happy but it also has a strong psychological component. The final revelation in this story will it will knock you l³