In this standalone spy thriller, Mick Herron, creator of Slough House,
introduced Tom Bettany, a man with a violent past and only one thing to
live for: Avenging his son's death.
Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets
a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn't know telling him that his
estranged 26-year-old son is dead--Liam Bettany fell from his London
balcony, where he was smoking pot.
Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns
home to London to find out the truth about his son's death. Maybe it's
the guilt he feels about losing touch with Liam that's gnawing at him,
or maybe he's actually put his finger on a labyrinthine plot, but either
way he'll get to the bottom of the tragedy, no matter whose feathers he
has to ruffle. But more than a few people are interested to hear Bettany
is back in town, from incarcerated mob bosses to those in the highest
echelons of MI5. He might have thought he'd left it all behind when he
first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.