Nobody Walks Av Mick Herron

<p><b>''A first-rate modern thriller'' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b>Set in the same world as Mick Herron''s bestselling Slough House thrillers, <i>Nobody Walks</i> introduces JK Coe, a fledgling spy who''s about to get a harsh lesson in the realities of life on Spook Street</b><br><br>Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead - Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking pot.<br>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. 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. And some of them - like JK Coe - will have cause to regret his reappearance.<br><br>Bettany might have thought he''d left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.</p>