Spook Street [Paperback]

What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but don’t remember they’re secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good?

These are the paranoid concerns of David Cartwright, a Cold War–era operative and one-time head of MI5 who is sliding into dementia, and questions his grandson, River, must figure out answers to now that the spy who raised him has started to forget to wear pants. But River, himself an agent at Slough House, MI5’s outpost for disgraced spies, has other things to worry about. A bomb has detonated in the middle of a busy shopping center and killed forty innocent civilians. The “slow horses” of Slough House must figure out who is behind this act of terror before the situation escalates.Praise forSpook Street

Winner of the 2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel 
An Irish Times Best Book of 2017
The Guardian Best Books of 2017
A Seattle Times Notable Book of 2017
​A Boston Globe Best Book of 2017 
Nominated for the 2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller
Shortlisted for the British Book Award for Crime & Thriller Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
Winner of the 2018 CrimeFest Last Laugh Award
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“Terrific spy novel . . . Sublime dialogue, frictionless plotting.”
—Ian Rankin

“Irony and black humor abound.”
—Newsday

“Spook Street is thoroughly gripping espionage, focused on intelligent plotting over action for its own sake—think le Carré, butl³’