Slough House · Book 6
London Rules
- Published
- 1 January 2018
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9781616959616
- Type
- novel
About this book
London Rules (2018, 352 pages) is the fifth Slough House novel, sitting in the reading order just before the novella The Marylebone Drop. Herron's satirical eye for Whitehall backstabbing and his thriller instinct for pace are both on full display as Lamb's slow horses get dragged into another operation gone wrong.
Its place in Slough House
London Rules is book 6 in the Slough House series. It follows Spook Street. It is followed by The Marylebone Drop. 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 9781641290241
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781616959616