by Mick Herron
Another great read. A hostage situation plays out at a nursery school in Oxford, England. This was a NTMA, will definitely check out his backlist.
Gonna be a crackin' movie. Not bad but maybe not so memorable as a book. It's got a decent little twisty plot (but nothing fabulous), and has some very (very) nice snipes at characters and Brit culture (and the Iraq miasma, one of the many ways the titular* "reconstruction" gets deployed), and I'm...