The sixth book in Mick Herron's Slow Horses series opens with two of the Slough House agents killed, although they aren't named. The story quickly goes back to the beginning of this book's action in which Min Harper's ex wife contacts Louisa Guy for help finding her missing son. Louisa calls in MI5's former head of security, Emma Flyte, for help and begins tracking the teenager. In the meantime, River Cartwright's father Frank Harkness turns up at River's grandfather's funeral, and Jackson Lamb assigns the team to investigate how he got into the UK and what he's doing. Of course, both investigations are related, and it's only belatedly that they come together to find the boy.
This book continues the riveting plotting, character development, and dialog of its earlier entries. It's fascinating to identify whom Herron is basing some of the characters on, including Boris Johnson and a member of the royal family code-named "Number 7" and his bad behavior; this is a major plot point given that the boy that has gone missing witnessed some of this bad behavior and was attempting to blackmail the criminals. I found myself unable to put this book down.
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