A review by furfff
Reconstruction by Mick Herron

2.0

Meh. Fairly corny, with a lot of forced perspective changes to create fake cliffhangers, not to mention especially toward the end a lot of pretty intolerable exposition through dialogue that brings to mind Scooby Doo villain lamenting meddling kids. I just cited to read this one, book 5 apparently in the Oxford series, because there was a mention of the events that take place inside the book in book one of the Slough house series, slow horses, and I was intrigued enough by the idea to find out if it were actually true, only to find it was the premise of this book. Anyway, not so good. I held out some early hope because I thought it was going to go in a completely different direction more akin to Louise Doughty‘s apple tree yard, but no such luck.