Slough House · Book 9
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.
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