Bad Actors by Mick HerronMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Where to start?
The UK has entered the COVID years, there's an oily Downing Street disruptor (think Dominic Cummings) leading the Prime Minister around by the, let's say, nose, and a Swiss Superpredictor has vanished into thin air. Claude Whelan, former First Desk of MI5 has been tasked/blackmailed into looking into her disappearance and tries to lean on Lady Di (Diana Taverner, current First Desk at Regent's Park) with predictable results.
Rather than his usual misdirection (of which I have complained in previous books) Mick herron instead tells this story in flashbacks and real time, without giving the reader clues as to which is which.
I loved this, a combination of Slough House ineptness/bad luck and Jackson Lamb's insights keep this story gripping to the end.
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