Slow Horses

Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award

'The finest new crime series this Millennium' Mail on Sunday

Slough House is 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 slow horses - and most bitter among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations.

But when a young man is abducted, and his kidnappers threaten to behead him live on the internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. But is the victim who he first appears to be? And what's the kidnappers' connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone involved has their own agenda . . .

“The finest new crime series this Millennium”

Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series: .
The new spy master Evening Standard
Jackson Lamb - the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher Sunday Times
As a master of wit, satire, insight . . . Herron is difficult to overpraise Daily Telegraph
Mail on Sunday
The best modern British spy series Daily Express
The John le Carré of our generation Val McDermid
Mick Herron is the real deal Irish Times
If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers. Better still, read the whole series Andrew Taylor, The Spectator
Surely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years Metro
With his poet's eye for detail, his comic timing and relish for violence, Herron fills a gap that has been yawning ever since Len Deighton retired Daily Telegraph
The most enjoyable spy novel in years Mail on Sunday
A funny, stylish, satirical, gripping story Guardian
I was delighted to discover that this is merely the first in a captivating series Herald
The first of his series about MI5 and a character called Jackson Lamb, one of the great monsters of modern fiction. He's a wonderfully cynical writer and there's a lot of dark humour in it. I'm not clever enough to write this sort of thing Daily Express
I was delighted to discover Mick Herron's riotous Slow Horses series about the black sheep of MI5 Big Issue
For something really gripping, head for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series, in which a sidelined spook and his cohorts battle their way back to the centre of a life of espionage. Begin with Slow Horses and enjoy Observer
Mick Herron's Slow Horses series has all the thrills of John Le Carre or Len Deighton with a black humour Daily Mail (Scotland)
One of the most consistently enjoyable literary achievements of the past decade The Times

Mick Herron is the author of the bestselling Slough House novels, which have won two CWA Daggers, been published in 20 languages, and are the basis of a major forthcoming TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He is also the author of the Zoe Boehm series, and the standalone novels Reconstruction and This is What Happened. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

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