Slough House · Book 13

Clown Town

Published
1 January 2025
Pages
335
ISBN-13
9781399800433
Type
novel
Cover of Clown Town

About this book

Clown Town (2025, 335 pages) is the most recent Slough House novel to date, following the novella Standing by the Wall as the ninth full-length entry. It continues the series' dark, unpredictable run of MI5's discarded officers being pulled out of their humiliating desk jobs and into operations that Regent's Park's careerists have quietly botched.

Key facts about Clown Town

Clown Town is a novel by Mick Herron. Readers have had it since 2025. It runs to 335 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Clown Town. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781399800433 to find the main one.

Clown Town is book 13 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. It is also the latest published Mick Herron book on file.

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

Clown Town is book 13 in the Slough House series. It follows 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…

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