In the ninth, and apparently penultimate, novel, Taverner seeks out Lamb's help. Someone has filed an anonymous complaint against her with HR, and she wants Roddy Ho to figure out who it is. Simultaneously, River goes to Oxford to meet with the academics curating his grandfather's library. He has been given a heads-up that something is missing. It turns out the two matters are related. The blackmail attempt against the Park is being carried out by the same person who stole a box disguised as a book, one that contained detailed information about a long-ago but major MI5 cock-up. Filled with the usual plots, subplots, counterplots, bureaucratic infighting, and endless manipulation, this one closes with Lamb doing what he always does—taking care of his Joes.
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