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100 1 _aHerron, Mick,
_eauthor.
_9138886
245 1 4 _aThe secret hours /
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSoho Crime,
_c[2023]
264 4 _c�2023
300 _a365 pages ;
_c24 cm
520 _a"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"--
610 1 0 _aGreat Britain.
_bMI5
_xCorrupt practices
_vFiction.
_9138887
650 0 _aGovernmental investigations
_vFiction.
_9138888
650 0 _aConspiracies
_vFiction.
650 0 _aInvestigations
_vFiction.
650 0 _aIntelligence officers
_vFiction.
650 0 _aSpy stories.
651 0 _aBerlin (Germany)
_xHistory
_y1990-
_vFiction.
_9138889
655 7 _aSpy fiction.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aThrillers (Fiction)
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655 7 _aNovels.
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