The Secret Hours

By Mick Herron,

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I was reading Mick Herron's Slough House novels before Apple TV turned them into a great series (which I also love). I take it the Slough House novels are done - a couple of the leading characters have been killed off in the most recent novels, so unless Herron has a surprise in store... This novel is a kind of prequel.

It takes place in two times and places, one in Cold War Berlin, the other around the time that Slough House was being formed (before Jackson Lamb was called that, e.g.). I'm not sure whether this novel would be…

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