Slough House · Book 8
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.
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