Bad Actors

*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*

*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

''Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction'' Sunday Times

In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere.

A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5''s Regent''s Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent''s Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5''s radar.

Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a lit