Slough House · Book 3
The List
- Published
- 1 January 2015
- Pages
- 112
- ISBN-13
- 9781616957452
- Type
- novella
About this book
The List is the first of the series' novellas, a shorter 2015 entry (112 pages) that slots into the reading order between Dead Lions and Real Tigers. Like the other Slough House novellas, it is an optional but rewarding detour, filling in backstory the main novels only gesture at.
Its place in Slough House
The List is book 3 in the Slough House series. It follows Dead Lions. It is followed by Real Tigers. 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 9781616957452