Rating: 4/5
Review:
An enjoyable diversion
This is a brief story from Mick Herron which takes about an
hour to read. It's not in the same
league as his full-length Slough House books, but it's an enjoyable diversion.
In The List, an old agent dies and it emerges that he was up
to something a little shady. His old
handler, threatened with destruction by Diana Taverner, attempts to find out
what is behind it. On the way we meet some
old friends including J.K. Coe, newly recruited to the Service and Jackson Lamb
in a cameo role. It's a neat, twisty
tale, although slightly unsatisfying in that even this small dose of Lamb seems
oddly diluted – he answers a knock with "Who the hell's that?", for
example. "Hell?" The Lamb we
know and love would have used a considerably more forceful term than that,
surely. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this for
what it is.
Mick Herron doesn't write bad books and Slough House addicts
like me will certainly want to read The List.
It's a decent read but don’t expect too much.
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