This is a RARE Uncorrected Proof of the 1st Print of the 1st UK hardback edition published by John Murray in 2017.
[Uncorrected bound proof]
Fine example of this rare proof. Closely resembles the final trade hardback and then the paperback.
This style of artwork would be continued for the next four books, as well as for the paperbacks. Before that, the books varied greatly across the series, which was already three books in.
We’ve never come across any of the early proofs, although we do have a few other Mick Herron titles in proof.
The Blurb
Twenty years retired from the Intelligence
Service, David Cartwright still knows where all the bones are buried.
But when he forgets that secrets are supposed to stay hidden, there's
suddenly a target on his back.
The 'Old Bastard'
raised his grandson to be a hero, not a slow horse. Now, far from
joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is part
of Jackson Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House. Which
doesn't mean he won't ditch everything and go rogue when his grandfather
comes under threat.
Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day,
and knows better than most that this is no innocent old man. So when a
panic button raises the alarm at Intelligence Service HQ, it's Lamb
who's called on to identify the body. And it's Lamb who'll do whatever's
necessary to protect an agent in peril.
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