Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

  • London Rules

  • Slough House, Book 5
  • By: Mick Herron
  • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
  • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,702 ratings)
Offer ends May 1st, 2024 11:59PM GMT. Terms and conditions apply.
£7.99/month after 3 months. Renews automatically.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
London Rules cover art

London Rules

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
Get this deal Try for £0.00

Pay £99p/month. After 3 months pay £7.99/month. Renews automatically. See terms for eligibility.

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Lincoln Lawyer: Booktrack Edition cover art
Down Cemetery Road cover art
The Last Voice You Hear cover art
Why We Die cover art
Smoke and Whispers cover art
The Insider cover art
Wyoming Wild cover art
My Name Is Nobody cover art
Doing Time cover art
A Tapping at My Door cover art
The Collapsing Empire cover art
Quicksilver cover art
A Man with One of Those Faces cover art
Attempted Vampirism: Publisher's Pack cover art
Forging Hephaestus cover art
Cold Monday cover art

Summary

Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. 

London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one.

Cover your arse.

Regent's Park's First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number 10; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble.

Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks, and someone's trying to kill Roddy Ho.

Over at Slough House, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - that of making a bad situation much, much worse.

It's a good job Jackson Lamb knows the rules. Because those things aren't going to break themselves.

©2018 Mick Herron (P)2018 John Murray Press

Critic reviews

"The UK's new spy master." (Sunday Times

"Herron is spy fiction's great humorist, mixing absurd situations with sparklingly funny dialogue and elegant, witty prose." (The Times

"Herron draws his readers so fully into the world of Slough House that the incautious might find themselves slipping between the pages and transformed from reader to spook." (Irish Times)

What listeners say about London Rules

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1,426
  • 4 Stars
    233
  • 3 Stars
    32
  • 2 Stars
    4
  • 1 Stars
    7
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1,447
  • 4 Stars
    105
  • 3 Stars
    15
  • 2 Stars
    2
  • 1 Stars
    3
Story
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1,232
  • 4 Stars
    263
  • 3 Stars
    50
  • 2 Stars
    7
  • 1 Stars
    7

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Gripping. Brilliantly entertaining.

I love Mick Herron’s dialogue. It is clever and insightful and funny. Depicts the characters brilliantly. Fantastic storytelling.
Sean Barrett’s narration is perfect. Tone, timing and interpretation all incredible. Hugely talented voice actor.
I’m a big fan of Slough House.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

13 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Best one yet!

I have really enjoyed reading all five of the currently available books in this series. Love the variety of deeply flawed characters and the careful, complicated plot lines. Sean Barrett isn’t bad, either!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

9 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars

Another real treat for Slough House fans

What an amusing and engrossing tale. So very well plotted and more lyrical than usual in parts.

I chuckled when Mr Barrett had to read the lines,”Mr Barrett,whose rich voice was a pleasure to listen to..” was that written by Mr Herron or Mr S. Barrett himself? (I am unable to access the book to check.)
But it is true. Jackson Lamb “lives forever” in the characterization provided by that voice we have come to appreciate so much.

Just a tiny question. Is it just me or have River and Shirley had a brain transplant and become dumb and dumber since dawn?
No matter. Please write more Mr Herron.
Lady Di T. must be expunged.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

6 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant!

Mick Herron and Sean Barrett, one of the best audio books in my library. Can't wait for the next in the series.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

5 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant

I love this series and these characters. Very funny, and beautifully written. Seán Barrett’s reading is fantastic.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

5 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Jackson Lamb , my ( anti ) hero!

Jackson Lamb lights up the page every time he appears. If you like your humour caustic and cynical, he is the man. Read by the inimitable Sean Barrett. Heaven on a stick !!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

3 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

The grubby side of the an almost secret service

Brilliantly narrated by Sean Barrett who brings the likes of the wonderfully awful Lamb to life. A tale of ambition and backstabbing, guilt and weaknesses, and disrespect for rules and manners. Read and love it. I've enjoyed them all and lived with the tackiness of slow horses and their brilliant persistence in the face of immovable bureaucracy.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

2 people found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Great book in a great series

I enjoyed every minute of this, well written and narrated. Can we have the next book quickly please.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars

EXPECTED MORE...

I really enjoyed the narrator-Sean Barrett and the depiction of the characters but the book left me a little cold. The main plot was trying to be too clever in parts and felt formulaic. Not my style

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant!

Great stories, with proper beginnings, middles and endings, coupled with clever humour in the characters, delivered by one of the best in the narration business, Sean Barrett could read the phone directory and I'd listen. He has the brilliant talent of bringing Mick Herron's clever stories to life, making every character truly believable. I've not listened to a better series for a long time.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful