A well written, pacy spy thriller with plenty of action and questions of who can be trusted and who is in charge. The action centres around a backwater of MI5, where personnel who have blotted their copybooks are put out to grass where they can't do too much harm. To avoid spoilers, let's say that something crops up to provoke interest, and events start to spiral out of control. The desk-bound find themselves out in the field and in a great deal of danger. Can fieldcraft save their lives and can they rescue the son of a former colleague who happened to see too much and sought to profit from it? The language Mick Herron uses is clever and just avoids being mannered. And who knew that sleepy Wales could accommodate such excitement? I will certainly be looking out for more from this author.
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