Slough House · Book 7
The Marylebone Drop
- Published
- 1 January 2018
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN-13
- 9781641290135
- Type
- novella
About this book
The Marylebone Drop is a 2018 novella (128 pages) that fits into the Slough House timeline between London Rules and Joe Country. Herron uses these shorter entries to flesh out corners of the story -- including Jackson Lamb's Cold War-era past -- that the main novels don't have room for.
Its place in Slough House
The Marylebone Drop is book 7 in the Slough House series. It follows London Rules. It is followed by Joe Country. 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 9781641290135