Slough House · Book 5
Spook Street
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN-13
- 9781616958695
- Type
- novel
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.
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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781473621268
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781616958695