BAD ACTORS (Slough House Book 8) by Mick Herron, narrated by Sean Barrett - audiobook extract
b"The eighth book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling 'Slough House' series by Mick Herron, who has been called 'The new king of the spy thriller' [Mail on Sunday].\\n\\nIn Mi5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere.\\n\\nA 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.\\n\\nOver at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation.\\n\\nIn a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.\\nod guys can find themselves outgunned.\\n\\n'Herron has certainly devised the most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley' The Times\\n\\n'Herron's novels are genuinely thrilling' Daily Telegraph\\n\\n'Britain's finest living thriller writer' Sunday Express"