Slough House · Book 4

Real Tigers

Published
1 January 2016
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9781473674202
Type
novel
Cover of Real Tigers

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.

Key facts about Real Tigers

Real Tigers is a novel by Mick Herron. Readers have had it since 2016. It runs to 368 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Real Tigers. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781473674202 to find the main one.

Real Tigers is book 4 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

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…

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