Slow Horses

A SPECIAL SIGNED ANNIVERSARY EDITION CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF SLOW HORSES

Featuring an exclusive foreword from Mick Herron and an exclusive essay from Tim Shipman (author of All Out War)

With stunning sprayed edges and endpapers, new cover design, ribbon marker and signed by the author, this unmissable one-off special edition is the perfect gift and collector's item for fans of Slow Horses, the basis of the award-winning TV show starring Gary Oldman

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'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

Slough House is the outpost where disgraced spies are banished to see out the rest of their derailed careers. Known as the 'slow horses' these misfits have committed crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal while on duty.

In this drab and mildewed office these highly trained spies don't run ops, they push paper. Not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse and the one thing they have in common is they want to be back in the action.

'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times

'The most enjoyable British spy novel in years' Mail on Sunday

'The new spy master' Evening Standard

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
The finest new crime series this Millennium 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)

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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