Spy Chaos with Herron at Peak Form
Mick Herron is so good at mixing tradecraft, menace and dry wit. This sounds like another razor-sharp Slough House thriller with real bite.
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Spy Chaos with Herron at Peak Form
Mick Herron is so good at mixing tradecraft, menace and dry wit. This sounds like another razor-sharp Slough House thriller with real bite.
- Book Synopsis
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The Instant Sunday Times Bestselling Thriller from the Author of Slow Horses
SUNDAY TIMES, THRILLER OF THE YEAR
GUARDIAN, CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR
DAILY TELEGRAPH, BOOK OF THE YEAR
TLS, BOOK OF THE YEAR
THE SPECTATOR, BOOK OF THE YEAR----
'Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer' Ian Rankin
'Clown Town is a masterpiece' India Knight, Sunday Times
'An authentic megastar of the genre' Sam Leith, Guardian
'No one can rival Mick Herron' The Times
'A superb thriller' The Spectator
'Masterly' Times Literary Supplement, books of the year----
MI5's First Desk, Diana Taverner, doesn't appreciate threats.
So when those involved in a covert operation during the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland threaten to expose the ugly side of state security, Taverner goes on the offensive. And when that happens, people get hurt.
Over at Slough House, the repository for failed spies, the slow horses are hard at work: belittling each other, pushing paper and marking time. Their boss, Jackson Lamb, wants them at their desks, but the slow horses are always looking for a way back on to Spook Street.
Meanwhile, another slow horse, River Cartwright, is waiting to be passed fit for work. At a loose end, and with his grandfather - a legendary former spy - long dead, River investigates the secrets of the old man's library, and a mysteriously missing book. What stories will it hold? And who wants those stories to stay silent?
After all, spies lie, they betray, it's what they do.
*Mick Herron's Clown Town was a Sunday Times Number Four bestseller in hardback in the second week of September 2025
- About The Author
- Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over thirty languages and are the basis of the award-winning TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. Among his other novels are the Zoë Boehm series, also now adapted for TV starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, and the standalone novels The Secret Hours and Nobody Walks. Mick's awards include the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399800440
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Baskerville, (23 April 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 337
- Weight
- 282 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 128 x 34 mm
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