Slow Horses
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 333
- ISBN-13
- 9780753186954
- Type
- novel
About this book
Slow Horses (2010, 333 pages) opens Mick Herron's Slough House series, introducing the vile, brilliant, permanently flatulent Jackson Lamb and the burnt-out MI5 rejects he runs from a humiliating backwater office. It sets the template the whole series follows: black comedy, Whitehall backstabbing from the real Service at Regent's Park, and a willingness to kill off major characters without warning.
Key facts about Slow Horses
Mick Herron wrote Slow Horses, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2010. The book has 333 pages.
We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780753186954 to find the main one.
Slow Horses is book 1 of 13 in the Slough House series. The series has 13 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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
Slow Horses is book 1 in the Slough House series. It is followed by Dead Lions. 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 9781641292979
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780753186954