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London Rules
- Author Mick Herron
- Narrator Sean Barrett
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Run Time 10 hours and 58 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Espionage and spy thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction.
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What to expect
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER
'The UK's new spy master' Sunday Times
London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one.
Cover your arse.
Regent's Park's First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble.
Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks, and someone's trying to kill Roddy Ho.
Over at Slough House, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - that of making a bad situation much, much worse.
It's a good job Jackson Lamb knows the rules. Because those things aren't going to break themselves.
******
Praise for Mick Herron
'The new spy master' Evening Standard
'Herron is spy fiction's great humorist, mixing absurd situations with sparklingly funny dialogue and elegant, witty prose' The Times
'Herron draws his readers so fully into the world of Slough House that the incautious might find themselves slipping between the pages and transformed from reader to spook' Irish Times
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER
'The UK's new spy master' Sunday Times
London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one.
Cover your arse.
Regent's Park's First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble.
Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks, and someone's trying to kill Roddy Ho.
Over at Slough House, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - that of making a bad situation much, much worse.
It's a good job Jackson Lamb knows the rules. Because those things aren't going to break themselves.
******
Praise for Mick Herron
'The new spy master' Evening Standard
'Herron is spy fiction's great humorist, mixing absurd situations with sparklingly funny dialogue and elegant, witty prose' The Times
'Herron draws his readers so fully into the world of Slough House that the incautious might find themselves slipping between the pages and transformed from reader to spook' Irish Times
Critics Review
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The new spy master
Evening Standard -
The new king of the spy thriller
Mail on Sunday -
The best modern British spy series
Daily Express -
Dazzingly inventive. Superbly orchestrated . . . Lamb – the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher
Sunday Times -
He’s been called the heir to Len Deighton – and Mick Herron’s latest mordantly funny espionage novel only backs that up
Sunday Times -
London Rules confirms Mick Herron as the greatest comic writer of spy fiction in the English language, and possibly all crime fiction
The Times
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