Slough House · Book 12
Standing by the Wall
- Published
- 1 January 2022
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN-13
- 9781641295031
- Type
- novella
About this book
Standing by the Wall is a 2022 novella (312 pages) that falls between Bad Actors and Clown Town in the Slough House timeline, and lends its title to the omnibus collecting all five of the series' novellas. Like the others, it digs into backstory -- notably Jackson Lamb's Cold War years in Berlin -- that the full-length novels leave largely unexplored.
Its place in Slough House
Standing by the Wall is book 12 in the Slough House series. It follows Bad Actors. It is followed by Clown Town. 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 9781399807081
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781641295031