This Is What Happened, Mick Herron
This Is What Happened, Mick Herron
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This Is What Happened

Author: Mick Herron

Narrator: Steven Crossley

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/23/2018


Synopsis

From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice. Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to infiltrate the establishment and thwart an international plot that puts all of Britain at risk. Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero-if she can think quickly enough to stay alive.

About Mick Herron

Mick Herron, British novelist and short story writer, is the author of the Slough House espionage series, four Oxford mysteries, and three standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, the Theakston’s Novel of the Year Award, the Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and the USC Libraries Scripter Award. His works have been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, and Shamus Awards. He was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford.


Reviews

I took a risk on this book, knowing nothing of British author Nick Herron’s work, and aware that suspense thrillers often lead into generic, bloodthirsty, and gratuitous cliché--mediocre TV-in-a-book exploitation with hackneyed dialogue and soap-opera-beautiful victims. Fortunately, I discovered ear......more