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This Is What Happened
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Slow Horses comes a riveting novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary.
Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with no family but an estranged sister, no partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice.
Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to infiltrate the establishment and thwart an international plot that puts all of Britain at risk.
Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero—if she can think quickly enough to stay alive.
Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with no family but an estranged sister, no partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice.
Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to infiltrate the establishment and thwart an international plot that puts all of Britain at risk.
Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero—if she can think quickly enough to stay alive.
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Emily
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“Not much of a thriller. It’s really only suspenseful during the first and last chapters. Maggie is so vulnerable and gullible it’s almost unbelievable. The prose is very blunt with short sentences, like my review so far.
Harvey is not likable and Maggie even describes him as ugly, yet she stays with him. I can’t believe she does what she does for so long (years!). I don’t really understand her motivations and she didn’t have much of a character unfortunately. Neither did the other female character introduced towards the end.
I’m not sure why so many chapters were from Harvey’s perspective. They seemed needless. The only chapters that really mattered from his viewpoint were a few towards the end, where you find out what’s really happening.
The ending was rushed and needed more closure. It was an entertaining and easy read but it was just okay. If you’re looking for a quick and digestible fiction story - but not really a thriller - this is the one for you.”
Hannah
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Sarah Ferreira
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“The story itself was decent. However, the two main characters were insufferable. Maggie was just SO brain dead. Like girl please can you just look out of the door or window at some point in the two years that you're being held captive for absolutely no reason? Who in their right mind would believe some weirdo off the street who approached them and said they were with some spy group and they needed your help saving the world. No proof needed, no second person to verify, just ok lemme break into a place, risk jail or death, no questions asked. And then lock me up for two years and tell me im a MURDERER?! it could NOT be me.”
Julian Ramos
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About Mick Herron
Mick Herron is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of the Slough House espionage series, four Oxford mysteries, and several standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement in Crime Writing, the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.
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