Spooks meets The X-Files with a generous helping of Le Carre, and a dash of Stephen King. HOW DO YOU STOP AN ASSASSIN THAT CAN'T BE KILLED? Toby Greene is part of The Clown Service, a mostly forgotten branch of British Intelligence tasked with fighting paranormal threats. However, the Rain-Soaked Bride is no ordinary assassin. Relentless, inexorable and part of a larger game, merely stopping this impossible killer may notbe enough to save the day. 'The Clown Service is fun and rips along like thefinest episode of the old Avengers series' The Independenton Sunday