Author Mick Herron Releases New Book, NOBODY WALKS

At the opening of Nobody Walks (Soho Crime | February, 2015) it's been years since Tom Bettany left London, his life in shambles. For decades Bettany had worked for the government, undercover, infiltrating the most dangerous organized crime syndicates working out of the capital. His retirement hadn't been much easier. Months after leaving the trade his wife developed brain cancer and died. Something Bettany's son, Liam, irrationally blamed him for.

Since his wife's death and his son's rejection Bettany has spent his time drifting around southern Europe, working one itinerant job after another. His most recent in a meat packing plant in Spain. A job he worked right up until he received word that his son has died. Liam fell from the balcony of his apartment. He had been smoking a particularly strong brand of marijuana and, disoriented, fallen to his death.

Back in London, carrying around his son's ashes in a Penguin Classic's tote bag (Brighton Rock), Bettany begins taking stock of the kind of man Liam had been. Going through his things and staying in his son's apartment for the last few days of its lease, it doesn't take a man like Bettany long to realize that Liam's death had not occurred exactly as the police said it did. And that he hadn't been alone when he fell.

In the days that follow many people will wish that Tom Bettany had stayed lost.

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