Slough House · Book 5

Spook Street

Published
1 January 2017
Pages
352
ISBN-13
9781616958695
Type
novel
Cover of Spook Street

About this book

Spook Street (2017, 352 pages) is book four of Slough House, arriving between Real Tigers and London Rules in publication order. It keeps faith with the series' inversion of glamorous spy fiction: Jackson Lamb's second-rate exiles doing the Service's dirty, deniable work.

Key facts about Spook Street

Mick Herron wrote Spook Street, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2017. The book has 352 pages.

We list 2 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781616958695 to find the main one.

Spook Street is book 5 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

Spook Street is book 5 in the Slough House series. It follows Real Tigers. It is followed by London Rules. 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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