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Slough House
Slough House Thriller (Related to this series)
- Author
- Mick Herron
- Narrator
- Sean Barrett
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publish Date
- 4 February 2021
- Run Time
- 9 hours 49 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Comical (humorous) crime and mystery, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
- Rating
- 4.5 (4 reviews)
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What to expect
*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
***WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022***
'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin
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Slough House - the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the 'slow horses', are banished - has been wiped from secret service records.
Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they've been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening.
With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets, the aftermath of a blunder by the Russian secret service that left a British citizen dead, and the old order ensuring that everything's for sale to the highest bidder, the world's an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the troubles to pass.
But the slow horses aren't famed for making wise decisions.
'The most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley' The Times
'An absolute tour-de-force' Sunday Express
(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Critics Review
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I can report that the new Mick Herron novel, Slough House, is as eye-wateringly funny as it is nerve-shreddingly tense. I think this might be the best Jackson Lamb outing yet, and that's taking it above a very high benchmark
Christopher Brookmyre
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This is a darker, scarier Herron. The gags are still there but the satire's more biting. The privatization of a secret service op and the manipulation of news is relevant and horribly credible
Ann Cleeves
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Mick Herron is one of the finest writers of his generation
Steve Cavanagh
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An excellent writer
Sunday Times
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[Slough House] is the best yet. The jokes are frequent and good, the pacing first rate, and the plot pieces, the moves and countermoves, snap as satisfyingly into place as anything I've read in the genre.
Times Literary Supplement
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Herron has certainly devised the most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley...What Herron has actually been writing is a modern sit-com. This is "the Office" (as insiders refer to MI6) as The Office, half-complete with the Slough setting.
The Times
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[Jackson Lamb] Herron's glorious creation propels the story to the bitter end where the non-stop barrage of jokes is fatally undercut by a final shocking twist.
Evening Standard
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I'll tell you what, to have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is a terrific thing.
Gary Oldman
User Reviews
Book 4.5
Narration 4.5
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4.0 5.0
Brill.
robinh 2024-09-14
Details
- Author
- Mick Herron
- Narrator
- Sean Barrett
- Duration
- 9 hours 49 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 February 2021
- ISBN
- 9781529378689
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Genre
- Espionage and spy thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Comical (humorous) crime and mystery, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
- Rating
- 4.5(4 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.5(4 reviews)
Synopsis
*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022***'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin****Slough House - the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the 'slow horses', are banished - has been wiped from secret service records.Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they've been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening.With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets, the aftermath of a blunder by the Russian secret service that left a British citizen dead, and the old order ensuring that everything's for sale to the highest bidder, the world's an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the troubles to pass.But the slow horses aren't famed for making wise decisions.'The most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley' The Times'An absolute tour-de-force' Sunday Express(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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