17 chapters To Eleanor [ goodreads ] 1 Like most forms of corruption PART ONE 2 On a night hot as hell 3 It must have been a nursery at one time 4 Catherine kept a spare set of doorkeys Boris bikes [ wiki ] 5 Thirty-nine minutes... 6 Time was, walking up Slough House's stairs 7 There were many thorns in Ingrid Tearney’s garden PART TWO 8 You could feasibly throw a tennis ball 9 The Thames looked low 10 Caviar had been on the menu 11 It was the violet hour once more 12 River didn’t drop more than a foot or so 13 Catherine Standish admired the empty bottle. 14 The pub was off Great Portland Street 15 A tidy battlefield is a good battlefield 16 The motorway was quiet 17 It was the hour after lunchtime