

the only police officers whose official duties include ghost hunting.

But now there’s a rash of sightings on the Metropolitan Line and these ghosts are frightening, aggressive and seem to be looking for something.Įnter PC Peter Grant junior member of the Metropolitan Police’s Special Assessment unit a.k.a.

There have been ghosts on the London Underground, sad, harmless spectres whose presence does little more than give a frisson to travelling and boost tourism. Ben Aaronovitch’s career started with a bang writing for Doctor Who, subsided in the middle and then, as is traditional, a third act resurgence with the bestselling Rivers of London series.īorn and raised in London he says that he’ll leave his home when they prise his city out of his cold dead fingers.
