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Slough House

The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 7)

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Slough House

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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 *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

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Slough House - the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the 'slow horses', are banished - has been wiped from secret service records.

Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they've been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening.

With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets, the aftermath of a blunder by the Russian secret service that left a British citizen dead, and the old order ensuring that everything's for sale to the highest bidder, the world's an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the troubles to pass.

But the slow horses aren't famed for making wise decisions.

'The most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley' The Times

'An absolute tour-de-force' Sunday Express

(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited©2021 Mick Herron Crime Thrillers Espionage Political Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction Exciting Witty England Russia

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Critic reviews

I can report that the new Mick Herron novel, Slough House, is as eye-wateringly funny as it is nerve-shreddingly tense. I think this might be the best Jackson Lamb outing yet, and that's taking it above a very high benchmark
This is a darker, scarier Herron. The gags are still there but the satire's more biting. The privatization of a secret service op and the manipulation of news is relevant and horribly credible
Mick Herron is one of the finest writers of his generation
An excellent writer
[Slough House] is the best yet. The jokes are frequent and good, the pacing first rate, and the plot pieces, the moves and countermoves, snap as satisfyingly into place as anything I've read in the genre.
Herron has certainly devised the most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley...What Herron has actually been writing is a modern sit-com. This is "the Office" (as insiders refer to MI6) as The Office, half-complete with the Slough setting.
[Jackson Lamb] Herron's glorious creation propels the story to the bitter end where the non-stop barrage of jokes is fatally undercut by a final shocking twist.
I'll tell you what, to have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is a terrific thing.
All stars
Most relevant
Once again our fractious team of 'slow horses' unwittingly survive the duplicitous world of politics meets espionage. Hard to stop listening and desperate for the next installment.

Excellent ongoing saga

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I’ve listened to all the audiobooks in this series so can safely say I’m a huge fan. The latest in the series does not disappoint. I’m sad that I have to wait another year for the next one in the series. In the meantime I look forward to the tv series.

Another slam dunk by Mick Herron

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Slough House is running out of steam his characters have been run down and out.

Not his best

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Micks books irritate me more than most others writers, they always leave you needing more.
Love the series, I just can't quite put my finger on it.

Always want more

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I imagine the combination of Jackson Lamb, Roddy Ho, Peter Judd, Shirley Dander and Diane Taverner to be the dinner guests from hell but in Mick Herron's hands and Sean Barrett's voice they are heaven sent Spook Street guests. They are by turns droll, sharp, witty, snide, vain, ruthless, crude, topical, cynical and strangely sentimental not to mention laugh out loud hilarious in a timely plot that ends on a savagely beautiful cliffhanger of a final chapter. I always fancied Brian Cox for the TV Jackson Lamb so let's see what Gary Oldman makes of it. And as for the casting of Roddy Ho, I can't wait to see who gets that plum role.

Lockdown Bliss

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