Joe Country
- Published
- 1 January 2019
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9781473657441
- Type
- novel
About this book
Running 352 pages, Joe Country (2019) is the sixth main Slough House novel, following on from The Marylebone Drop. It's another turn of Herron's signature machine: MI5's discarded officers, led by the foul-mouthed Jackson Lamb, pulled from their humiliating desk jobs into a real, unpredictable operation.
Key facts about Joe Country
Joe Country is a novel by Mick Herron. Readers have had it since 2019. It runs to 352 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Joe Country. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781473657441 to find the main one.
Joe Country is book 8 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
Joe Country is book 8 in the Slough House series. It follows The Marylebone Drop. It is followed by The Catch. 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 9781473657441