num_pages: 128
description: Set in the same world as the Slough House series this explosive novella by bestselling spy-master Mick Herron is a treat for his massive fan base.John Bachelor is the saddest kind of spy: not a joe in the field not even a desk jockey but a milkmana part-time pension administrator whose main job is to check in on aging retired spies. Late in his career and having lost his wife his house and his savings after a series of unlucky choices Johns been living in a dead mans London apartment hoping the bureaucracy isnt going to catch up with him and leave him homeless. But keeping a secret among spies is a fools errand and now John has made himself eminently blackmailable.
language: English
title: The Catch
publisher: Soho Crime