Been looking for a fun read that takes risks w its characters. Something like le Carre or Mick Herron’s Slow Horses (which I love because it is funny and serious at the same time)
[Spy x Family](https://www.viz.com/spy-x-family). Agent Twilight is Westalis’s greatest agent and master of disguise. To prevent a war with Ostania, he’s been tasked with infiltrating Ostania’s greatest private academy. Taking on the name of Loid Forger, he creates a fake family with the orphan Anya and a city hall employee Yor Briar. What Loid doesn’t know is that Yor happens to be Ostania’s notorious assassin “Thorn Princess”, and that Anya is psychic (and thus the only one aware of Loid and Yor’s true identities).
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I too would like to read something as good as Mick Herron…not found it yet.
However, you could try LC Tyler’s 17th century-set mysteries, in which John Grey, a lawyer turned spy sleuths first for Cromwell and then for the King. Tyler’s books are mostly serious but with a dash of really good dry humour – a little similar to Herron. Starts with A Cruel Necessity.
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‘Good Omens’ by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is a satirical take on the apocalypse that I always find delightful. With its quirky characters – including an angel, a demon, and the Antichrist – the book pokes fun at the end of the world with sharp wit and a heartwarming undercurrent of friendship.
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[Spy x Family](https://www.viz.com/spy-x-family). Agent Twilight is Westalis’s greatest agent and master of disguise. To prevent a war with Ostania, he’s been tasked with infiltrating Ostania’s greatest private academy. Taking on the name of Loid Forger, he creates a fake family with the orphan Anya and a city hall employee Yor Briar. What Loid doesn’t know is that Yor happens to be Ostania’s notorious assassin “Thorn Princess”, and that Anya is psychic (and thus the only one aware of Loid and Yor’s true identities).
I too would like to read something as good as Mick Herron…not found it yet.
However, you could try LC Tyler’s 17th century-set mysteries, in which John Grey, a lawyer turned spy sleuths first for Cromwell and then for the King. Tyler’s books are mostly serious but with a dash of really good dry humour – a little similar to Herron. Starts with A Cruel Necessity.
‘Good Omens’ by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman is a satirical take on the apocalypse that I always find delightful. With its quirky characters – including an angel, a demon, and the Antichrist – the book pokes fun at the end of the world with sharp wit and a heartwarming undercurrent of friendship.