Slough House · Book 10
Slough House
- Published
- 1 January 2021
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN-13
- 9781529378665
- Type
- novel
About this book
Slough House, the seventh main-line novel (2021, 312 pages), takes its title from the series itself -- the humiliating MI5 backwater where Jackson Lamb's screw-ups and burnouts are exiled. It follows The Catch and precedes Bad Actors, continuing Herron's dark-comic run of botched Regent's Park operations and expendable characters.
Its place in Slough House
Slough House is book 10 in the Slough House series. It follows The Catch. It is followed by Bad Actors. 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 9781641293099
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781529378665