Reconstruction

In this chillingly plausible standalone thriller, Mick Herron, the New York Times bestselling author of Slow Horses, proves he “never tells a suspense story in the expected way” (The New York Times Book Review).

When a highly classified espionage operation breaks down, a prisoner escapes from a transport vehicle on the busy ring road outside Oxford. Now an armed and desperate man is on the loose. He has taken refuge in a preschool, where a collection of teachers, parents, and students were a...