Spook Street: Slough House Book 4 by Mick Herron

Spook Street: Slough House Book 4 by Mick HerronWhat happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but don't remember they're secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good? These are the questions River Cartwright must ask when his grandfather, a Cold War; era operative, starts to forget to wear pants and begins to suspect everyone in his life has been sent by the Service to watch him. But River has other things

hopes and missed opportunities

but wouldn't dream of lifting one of his eight arms for his human captors until he forms a remarkable friendship with Tova

Toby was living the dream

with her dress slowly unmaking itself over the course of an evening at the ball of the season

is ordered to destroy books which threaten the new regime

particle physics

living your best #vanlife or just looking to do a bit of imaginative armchair tourism

Yet his ill-fated death in the Australian outback

After a brutal wildfire tears through the town of Jasper in the Californian sierras

a prendere posizione

I had no idea what it meant or that it would take me 70 years to keep it

and deliciously unsettling