The mind-bending sequel to the Times Thriller of the Year bestseller, This is the Night They Come for You. 'The world's greatest storyteller' Guardian 'Our finest practitioner of the double-cross plotting' Mick Herron 'Splendidly serpentine and immaculately plotted, this is British thriller writing at its very best' Daily Mail __________ Trouble has a way of finding those those who spend most of their time trying to avoid it. Or so it appears to Superintendent Taleb, whose attempts to wind his career down to an unobtrusive retirement are once again in jeopardy. When delegated a television interview to discuss a thirty year old political controversy, his instructions are clear enough: whatever you say, do not rock the boat. But an inexplicable urge in the moment to tell the truth lands him in dangerously hot water. It also reopens some decades wounds which will bring him to the forefront of an investigation he is keen to avoid. Whether he likes it or not, the past is coming for him.
