Bad Actors
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 360
- ISBN-13
- 9781641294584
- Type
- novel
About this book
Bad Actors (2022, 360 pages) is the eighth Slough House novel, sitting between the seventh book and the novella Standing by the Wall in the reading order. Herron keeps mining Whitehall's scheming careerists for both satire and genuine plot danger, with Jackson Lamb's slow horses once again doing the Service's deniable dirty work.
Key facts about Bad Actors
Mick Herron wrote Bad Actors, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2022. The book has 360 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781641294584 to find the main one.
Bad Actors is book 11 of 13 in the Slough House series. The series has 13 published books. However, the series starts with Slow Horses (2010).
Additionally, Mick Herron writes Zoë Boehm as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and spy thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Clown Town is the latest published Mick Herron book on file, from 2025.
About Mick Herron
Mick Herron is a British author best known for the Slough House series (also published as the Jackson Lamb novels or Slow Horses), a critically acclaimed spy fiction series following a squad of disgraced MI5 officers exiled to a dead-end administrative posting under the deliberately repugnant, foul-mouthed Jackson Lamb. See every Mick Herron book in order.
Its place in Slough House
Bad Actors is book 11 in the Slough House series. It follows Slough House. It is followed by Standing by the Wall. See the full Slough House reading order.
Slough House is where MI5 dumps the officers it can't fire but won't trust with real work: the screw-ups, addicts and burnouts, exiled to humiliating desk jobs under the vile, brilliant, permanently flatulent Jackson Lamb. Mick Herron's spy novels invert the glamorous-espionage template completely -- his "slow horses" are second-rate by design, and the series' dark comedy comes from watching them get pulled into real, high-stakes operations anyway, usually because Regent's Park (the actual Service, run by…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781641294584