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THE EIGHTH BOOK IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC), expands his world of bad spies with an even shadier cast of characters: the politicians, lobbyists, and misinformation agents pulling the levers of government policy. “Confirms Mick Herron as the best spy novelist now working.”—NPR's Fresh Air In London's MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster—a specialist who advises the Prime Minister's office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate—has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads him straight back to Regent's Park itself, with First Desk Diana Taverner as chief suspect. Has Taverner overplayed her hand at last? Meanwhile, her Russian counterpart, Moscow intelligence's First Desk, has cheekily showed up in London and shaken off his escort. Are the two unfortunate events connected? Over at Slough House, where Jackson Lamb presides over some of MI5's most embittered demoted agents, the slow horses are doing what they do best, and adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation . . . There are bad actors everywhere, and they usually get their comeuppance before the credits roll. But politics is a dirty business, and in a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing are the norm, sometimes the good guys can find themselves outgunned. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Soho Crime


Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 4, 2023


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Print length ‏ : ‎ 360 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1641294582


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 84


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.24 inches


Book 8 of 9 ‏ : ‎ Slough House


Best Sellers Rank: #23,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #17 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books) #28 in International Mystery & Crime (Books) #41 in Espionage Thrillers (Books)


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    • A Cut Above His Last Several
I thought Bad Actors captures the comedic coherence of the early books in the series. I've enjoyed them all and I think have rated all except one five stars. But, several plot lines felt contrived and unrealistic in his last several entries in the Slow Horses (Slough House) series. In Bad Actors, the plot twists are conceivable and don't require the suspension of disbelief. Always a good thing for an action - adventure story. What's not to like here? Tavener's counterpart in Putin's Intelligence apparatus appears in London unexpectedly and secretly - only to announce his presence in a way to ensure MI5's notice. A secret femme-fatale has gripped the imagination the PM's political fixer/strategist and disappears. As her secretive past unfolds, links that prove dangerous add urgency to finding her. Tavener's former boss appears again at The Park on a mission from 10 Downing Street to throw nettles into First Desk's operational control of her empire. And as always, the Slow Horses led by the comedically wise Jackson Lamb intervene and half-bumblingly prove crucial to ensuring the good guys win (or at least the less-bad guys don't lose it all). I like the Rodster's development over the last several books. His supreme lack of self-awareness and confidence in his fantasy uber-maleness are funny and have been a welcome addition to the story. Also interesting is Tavener's reliance once-again on Lamb to pull her chestnuts out of the fire. Their park bench meetings to deliver and receive Lamb's insights are a delicious part of the story. Watching the supreme egotist Diane Tavener have to rely on Lamb's thinking and interventions - the last person she want's to have to acknowledge as crucial to her survival - is a great part of the story. Interestingly, Cartwright takes an absence in this book. I'm assuming he'll return this fall when the next in the series is released. Actually, he's not missed. Lech, Roddy, Catherine, Louisa and Shirley continue to hold their own as the Slow Horse Cavalry without him - and develop as interesting characters.. I was actually impressed in this book that Mick Herron seemed to be avoiding any of his incongruous insertion of anti-Trump one-liners into the story as he had in the last several. That held up until about page 300 when his one and only politically correct Trump-dump appeared as a Lamb throw-away line. It doesn't come close to ruining the story but does break the narrative as the reader briefly leaves the deftly crafted world of the Slow Horses to be momentarily transported to what I assume is Herron's real world perceived need to be on the right (I guess "correct") side of history among the British intelligentsia. Overall, a great, funny and well-crafted entry in the series. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2025 by Wayne A. Smith
    • Ms. D Needs a Hand from Slough House - 4-
Some familiar brilliance in Mick Herron's latest Slough House book, but also treading on familiar ground. Jackson Lamb is pulled from his den and works directly with habitual bureaucratic enemy, Diana Taverner against a common foe within the political ranks of the current British government. The rest of the Slough House gang is present and very active (minus one important continuing character). All very fine, but the author took to narrating a fair amount of filler when the action didn't provide the reader with answers to what the hell was going on, giving the story a bit of a Agatha Christie feel to the book at times. Mick Herron still delivers a pretty good story and some amazing characters, so I'm doing some real nit picking here, but this author also delivers some lofty expectations of the reader, and small slips are noticed. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2022 by Blue in Washington (Barry Ballow)
    • An Expertly Written Spy Novel
What a delight! I can’t recommend this book enough. Great characters. Great plot. Gut busting humor. Farcical action. Great writing. The plot unfolds early and by midpoint, Bad Actors is impossible to put down. The book begins by satirically paraphrasing the last verse of Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” To wit: “The woods were lovely, dark, and deep, and full of noisy bast’rds,” which is fitting because Frost himself was an icy, sardonic man. And this book is a satirical portrait of spies and politicians. The narration is clever in shading scenes from a character’s perspective, without actually quoting the character’s thoughts verbatim. Take this description of doing yoga that features the drug-addled Shirley Dander: “Then several minutes of downward dog, the least dignified position Shirley had attempted without at least one other person being involved.” And this description of Shirley feeling satisfied: “There’s nothing like putting someone through a window for altering the dynamic of a situation.” Cold and calculating characters invoke stark descriptions of the world around them. Weak and insecure characters perceive a threatening world preying on their failings. The one exception is Jackson Lamb, a repugnant modern day Sherlock Holmes. The narrator rarely reveals Lamb’s thought processes. Instead, the reader gets descriptions of Lamb’s behavior and aptitude. He chain smokes cigarettes. He’s foul. He’s cruel. He’s hilarious. He’s at his best in critical situations. He’s a genius, thoroughly over qualified for his role as the deplorable task master for his slow horses in Slough House (Gary Oldman portrays him in the TV series with superb, scatalogical accuracy). The action is farcical because, though it is frequently violent, it’s also funny, the perfect example of an author guiding his readers through brutal chaos with wit and charm. The only nit I have is that, in the first hundred pages or so, Bad Actors jumps back and forth in time, taking the reader from the present to the past and back to the present, sometimes within a single paragraph. But that’s a minor detail that is easily understood as the plot unfolds. Bad Actors is an expertly written spy novel promising and delivering great entertainment. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2024 by Glosso

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