02131cam a2200325 i 4500 980800408 TxAuBib 20230920120000.0 230830s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023010236 9781641295215 hardcover $27.95 164129521X hardcover $27.95 (OCoLC)1395568952 TxAuBib rda Herron, Mick, author. The secret hours [Book] / Mick Herron. New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2023] 365 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable First Desk did not become Britain's top spy by accident, and she has succeeded thwarting the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that brought Monochrome into being has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust--and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects swirl down the drain in the pounding London rain. Until the eve of Monochrome's shuttering, when an MI5 case file appears without explanation. It is the buried history of a highly classified operation in 1994 Berlin--an operation that ended in tragedy and scandal, whose cover-up has rewritten thirty years of Service history."-- Provided by publisher. 20230920. Great Britain MI5 Corrupt practices Fiction. Governmental investigations Fiction. Conspiracies Fiction. Spy fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) RV8