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.
Key facts about London Rules
London Rules is a novel by Mick Herron. Readers have had it since 2018. It runs to 352 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of London Rules. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781616959616 to find the main one.
London Rules is book 6 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
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