Slough House · Book 4
Real Tigers
- Published
- 1 January 2016
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9781473674202
- Type
- novel
About this book
Real Tigers (2016, 368 pages) is the third full-length Slough House novel, following the disgraced slow horses as Regent's Park's institutional scheming pulls them into another high-stakes operation -- with Herron's usual disregard for which characters survive it.
Its place in Slough House
Real Tigers is book 4 in the Slough House series. It follows The List. It is followed by Spook Street. 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 9781473674202