*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The TimesSlough House is the outpost where disgraced spies are banished to see out the rest of their derailed careers. Known as the 'slow horses' these misfits have committed crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal while on duty.

*NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARING GARY OLDMAN*'Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction' Sunday TimesSpooks are supposed to be stealthy . . . But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House.This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and dr...

**A New York Times bestselling seriesTHE BOOK BEHIND THE FIRST SEASON OF SLOW HORSES, THE APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING GARY OLDMAN IN HIS EMMY-NOMINATED ROLE AS JACKSON LAMB.**Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agents is united by one common bond: They've screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves.This deluxe edition of a modern classic includes ...

The Instant Sunday Times Bestselling Thriller from the Author of Slow HorsesSUNDAY TIMES, THRILLER OF THE YEARGUARDIAN, CRIME BOOK OF THE YEARDAILY TELEGRAPH, BOOK OF THE YEARTLS, BOOK OF THE YEARTHE SPECTATOR, BOOK OF THE YEAR----'Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer' Ian Rankin'Clown Town is a ...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A 'Book of the Year' in The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Sunday Express, TLS, Irish Times*'Pure class' Ian Rankin 'Pitch-perfect' Lee Child'A powerful standalone spy thriller from a true contemporary master' Daily TelegraphTrying to investigate the Secret Service is like trying to get rid ...

*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022***'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin****Slough House - the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the 'slow horses', are banished - has been wiped from secret service...

*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on SundayIn the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where spies mockingly called the slow horses are sent to finish what is left of their careers, their boss Jackson Lamb is on his way Oxford. A former spook has turned up dead on a bus.Not an obvious target for assassinat...

*A COLLECTION OF NOVELLAS SET IN THE WORLD OF SLOUGH HOUSE FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SLOW HORSES*'Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer' Ian Rankin'An authentic megastar of the genre' Guardian'No one can rival Mick Herron' The Times***On spook street, snow is falling, hiding memories and secrets.A double agent on the lo...

*From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson*'If you haven't read Zoë Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' Val McDermid, author of Past LyingIncludes Down Cemetery Road, The Last Voice You Hear, Why We Die and Smoke and Whispers.'A not-to-be-missed treat . . . Herron's incisive portraits are as pitch perfect...

*NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARING GARY OLDMAN*'Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction' Sunday TimesSpooks are supposed to be stealthy . . . But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House.This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and dr...

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-published Christmas interlude Standing by the Wall.Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger–winning author of Slow Horses. From the troubled recruitment of a new MI5 informant to a botched information transfer, Herr...

The List can now be found in Standing by the Wall, the collection of other novellas set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Slough House series.Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account—and there’s only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a d...