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Clown Town

The Instant Sunday Times Bestselling Thriller from the Author of Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 9)
By Mick Herron
Series: Slough House Thriller
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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... Read More
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Clown Town

The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron

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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 investigates the secrets of the old man's library, and a mysteriously missing book.

Regent's Park's First Desk, Diana Taverner, doesn't appreciate threats. So when those involved in a covert operation during the height of the Troubles threaten to expose the ugly side of state security, Taverner turns blackmail into opportunity.

Over at Slough House, the repository for failed spies, Catherine Standish just wants everyone to play nice. But as far as Jackson Lamb is concerned, the slow horses should all be at their desks.

Because when Taverner starts plotting mischief, people get hurt, and Lamb has no plans to send in the clowns. On the other hand, if the clowns ignore his instructions and fool around, any harm that befalls them is hardly his fault.

But they're his clowns. And if they don't all come home, there'll be a reckoning.

Series: Slough House Thriller

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399800440

Publisher: John Murray Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 April 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Baskerville

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 352

Collections

Comedic Crime Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Mick Herron Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date Series: Slough House Thriller Spy & Espionage Thriller

About the Author

Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over twenty-five languages and are the basis of the award-winning TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. Among his other novels are the Zoe Boehm series, also now adapted for TV starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, and the standalone novels The Secret Hours and Nobody Walks. Mick's awards include the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

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