The Catch
- Published
- 1 January 2020
- Pages
- 1
- ISBN-13
- 9781664491632
- Type
- novella
About this book
The Catch is a short 2020 novella slotting into the Slough House timeline between Joe Country and the seventh novel, Slough House. It's one of several novella-length side entries -- alongside The List, The Marylebone Drop and Standing by the Wall -- that fill in backstory between the main books, and all are collected together in the omnibus Standing by the Wall.
Key facts about The Catch
The Catch is a novella by Mick Herron. Readers have had it since 2020. It runs to 1 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Catch. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781664491632 to find the main one.
The Catch is book 9 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
The Catch is book 9 in the Slough House series. It follows Joe Country. It is followed by Slough House. 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 9781664491632