Mick Herron

Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award The finest new crime series this Millennium - Mail on Sunday Slow Horses is set in Slough House, a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've messed up: perhaps left a service file on a train, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They are the service's poor relations...

Two SLOUGH HOUSE Novellas The Drop 'It is time Mick Herron was recognised in his own right as the best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday Express Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone café, he knows he's...

Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman 'The best thriller writer in Britain today' Daily Express 'As a master of wit, satire, insight... Herron is difficult to overpraise' Daily Telegraph 'The greatest comic writer of spy fiction in the English language' The Times 'Kill us? They've never needed to kill us,' said Lamb. 'I mean, look at us. What...

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,...

From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson 'If you haven't read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' — Val McDermid, author of Past Lying 'Good characterisation, dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible' — Daily Telegraph It's an evening...

Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 'The finest new crime series this Millennium' - Mail on Sunday Slow Horses is set in Slough House, a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a service file on a train, say, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They're the service's poor relations —...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A 'Book of the Year' in The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Sunday Express, TLS, Irish Times 'Pure class' – Ian Rankin     'Pitch-perfect' – Lee Child 'A powerful standalone spy thriller from a true contemporary master' – Daily Telegraph Trying to investigate the Secret Service is like trying to get rid...

From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson 'If you haven't read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' - Val McDermid, author of Past Lying 'This is one of those novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but...

Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday Dead Lions by Mick Herron masterfully intertwines wit and suspense, placing us once again within the grimy walls of Slough House—a dumping ground for the disgraced and the demoted of the British Intelligence Service. Jackson Lamb, the irreverent and sharp-witted leader of...

Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie...

'Masterful . . . superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison' Publishers Weekly Reconstruction by Mick Herron is a gripping novel where a supposed simple task turns into a day-long nightmare for Bad Sam Chapman. When an operational catastrophe places a gun in the hands of a young man who then breaks...

From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson If you haven't read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' - Val McDermid, author of Past Lying Herron is a stylish writer with a mordant sensibility and a deadly wit. He's also a tricky plotter - New...

Now a major TV series, Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman 'A terrific spy novel' – Ian Rankin 'A modern masterpiece' – Irish Times Twenty years retired from the Intelligence Service, David Cartwright still knows where all the bones are buried. But when he forgets that secrets are supposed to stay hidden, there's suddenly a target on his back. The 'Old...

From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson 'If you haven't read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' - Val McDermid, author of Past Lying 'Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind...

'A first-rate modern thriller' Daily Mail Set in the same fictional London as the CWA Dagger Award-winning Slough House series, Nobody Walks introduces JK Coe, a fledgling spy who's about to get a harsh lesson in the realities of life on Spook Street. Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail telling...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER AND THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers' The Spectator 'The finest new crime series this millennium' Mail on Sunday Catherine Standish knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks. She's worked in...

The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden Spies lie. They betray. It's what they do. Slow horse River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work. With time to kill, and with his grandfather—a legendary former spy—long dead, River...

The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns. Or so David Cartwright used to say, but he forgot to add they can be dangerous too, especially if they've fallen...

Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Sets a new bar for spy fiction' Financial Times In Slough House, the backwater for failed spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make...

Something's happened. A lot of things have happened. If she could turn back time, she wondered how far she would go. Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie...

Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A pitch-perfect espionage thriller' Sunday Times 'The foremost living spy novelist in the English language' New Statesman In MI5, a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere. A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING SLOUGH HOUSE THRILLERS Mick Herron is 'Britain's finest living thriller writer' (Sunday Express) and author of the bestselling and award-winning Slough House novels. Dolphin Junction captures his trademark tension, humour, and suspense in the form of short fiction, collected here for the first time. When a wife leaves her husband under suspicious circumstances, he...

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, perfect for fans of the #1 bestselling Slough House series. Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Secrets. From the troubled recruitment of a new MI5 informant to the buried secrets of the Cold War, Herron's novellas capture the drama, humour, and high stakes of everyday life in the world of spycraft....

A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS. Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles performed, and he's always been Jackson Lamb's Number...

From the creator of Slow Horses and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson 'If you haven't read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' — Val McDermid, author of Past Lying 'Good characterisation, dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible' — Daily Telegraph It's an evening...

The Catch by Mick Herron is a compelling and tightly crafted tragicomedy that dives into the perilous world of British Intelligence with sharp wit and sardonic humour. The story revolves around John Bachelor, a washed-up spy who has learned to keep his head down to survive. John's current predicament is less than enviable; living rent-free in the flat of a...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING GARY OLDMAN 'Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction' Sunday Times Spooks are supposed to be stealthy... But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House. This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers,...

From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson 'If you haven't read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' – Val McDermid, author of Past Lying 'This is one of these novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but...

From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson 'If you haven't read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' - Val McDermid, author of Past Lying 'Herron is a stylish writer with a mordant sensibility and a deadly wit. He's also a tricky plotter' - New...

From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson 'If you haven't read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction' – Val McDermid, author of Past Lying 'Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind...