To The Last Page

You've got to hand it to Mick Herron. It can't be easy trying to satirise UK government when there have been three PMs in the position since the last book only a year ago. Another way of looking at it is that the Slough House author is spoiled for choice, but without making him a main player (or bad actor), he sticks with the one resembling the self-interested buffoon who " preferred the public to believe that his ineffectual blustering was a stage act ', probably still the incumbent at the time of writing actually. You know, the one with a self-important dodgy SPAD enforcer and disruptor (" gnome-in-residence ") running the show and doing his best to break down the established order of the service. He's up against some stiff if unwitting competition in Herron's world with the crew at Slough House. One of the targets of the PM's Special Advisor Anthony Sparrow is someone with possibly more power and influence than himself, or perhaps he just like...