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Unfinished business in Berlin: The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron, reviewed

9 September 2023 9:00 am

How it all began: Di Taverner, Service legend David Cartwright and the rest of the Slow Horses make themselves known to the reader in an origin story disguised as a follow-up

John le Carré’s wild MI6 Christmas parties

13 February 2021 9:00 am

In the middle of December, for reasons I’m coming to, I woke early in a posh hotel. I lay semi-dozing…

The body count piles up in Mick Herron’s London Rules

24 February 2018 9:00 am

The well-written spy novel is not a hotly contested field. Le Carré, Fleming, Deighton, a few Greenes, and that’s largely…