Satire, verbal sparring and gunfights are deftly combined in an excellently written novel permeated by Herron’s sly, dry and very English sense of humour – rather as if Philip Larkin or Alan Bennett had had a go at spy fiction.
Satire, verbal sparring and gunfights are deftly combined in an excellently written novel permeated by Herron’s sly, dry and very English sense of humour – rather as if Philip Larkin or Alan Bennett had had a go at spy fiction.