Rating: 4/5
Review:
A good, brief read
The Drop is a very brief “novella” (an extended short story,
really) which is in parallel to the Slough House series and continues
the story of Hannah Weiss which began in The List. I suspect that
this story may become an important feature of future Jackson Lamb
books, but for now it’s a sidelight on goings on elsewhere in the
Service and an introduction to a new character for Slough House.
Be aware that
Jackson Lamb does not appear at all in The List, so his brilliant,
hilarious cynicism is absent here and this is a much more
straight-down-the-line spy story. It’s good, if not fantastic. I
have to say that charging as much as many full-length books for a
story of well under 100 pages does seem wrong to me, but I enjoyed
reading it very much and can recommend it.
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