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Title: This Is What Happened
Author: Mick Herron
Narrator: Steven Crossley
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-23-18
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Espionage

Publisher's Summary:
From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary
Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice.
Or just the kind of person MI5 needs to infiltrate the establishment and thwart an international plot that puts all of Britain at risk.
Now one young woman has the chance to be a hero - if she can think quickly enough to stay alive.

Members Reviews:
CREEPY AND GOOD --REMINISCENT OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NOVELS OF RUTH RENDELL, PATRICIA HIGHSMITH AND MARGARET MILLAR
Early in this elegantly scary book, a nave young woman, Maggie, is duped into doing something she shouldnât have. It goes wrong and sheâs on the run. From that point on, I really canât say what happens because it would ruin the suspense of this very suspenseful book for a reader new to it. Suffice it to say that Maggie has been played by a man who claims to be, but is he?, an agent of Britainâs secret service MI5. In the course of the unraveling of events in this complicated creepy crime novel, the perspective switches back and forth among three players (Maggie, the MI5 agent, and whoâs the third?) and shocking things happen. The reader has entered that very noir terrain previously inhabited by a relatively small number of mystery/crime writers, most notably Patricia Highsmith, Margaret Millar, Minette Walters, and Ruth Rendell. This is good stuff but donât expect even a happy ending really to be happy in a fiction like this.

Dark, Intense & Disturbing
When I saw the title of this book, I wondered if it was Donna Brazile's new book on what went wrong for the Democratic Party in the 2016 election. Was Mick Herron having fun with the readers' minds with this title?
Be assured this book has nothing to do with Hillary, Donna or the election. Instead, it's a disturbing tale of a young woman who disappears. She goes to work one day, and never comes home. Why?
Can someone disappear off the face of the earth and leave no trace? What would be the conditions for that to happen?
This book sets up a scenario which is believable as in it could happen. Maggie thinks that she has been chosen by the British Intelligence service to help spy on the multi-national corporation for which she works which is owned by the Chinese. They want to take over the U.K. says her intelligence contact whom she met in the park.
Why was Maggie chosen? Because she is a nobody - someone no one would suspect. She works in the mail room of the corporation, so has access to the entire building. The book opens with Maggie hiding in the women's room of her company building waiting for security to finish their evening round so she can dash upstairs to where the important people work and insert a hard drive which will monitor all of the company's transactions.
As the book progresses, it sets up a dystopian world.