Slough House · Book 13
Clown Town
- Published
- 1 January 2025
- Pages
- 335
- ISBN-13
- 9781399800433
- Type
- novel
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.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781399800433