How Mick Herron found his publisher... and other things

[E G Logan]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/05/is-mick-herron-the-best-spy-novelist-of-his-generation

I always wondered that. His books are such crossovers – spy + humour. I kept on reading them, utterly gripped, even though he seemed bent on single-handedly destroying the property market in Aldersgate Street.

BTW, surely they know about cat-flaps in the US? Unless the kind in use in Oxford are uniquely tunnel-like, which I doubt...