Slough House · Book 11
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.
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