Spook Street: Slough House Thriller 4

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He’s overweight, frequently drunk and appears dishevelled, but many enemies make the mistake of underestimating him. There may come a point where I have to let him grow up a bit,” he admitted, “but then I’d probably have to kill him. His slow horses come in every type, and they got kicked out of the service for every imaginable screwup.

This collection features five standalone crime fiction stories complemented by four mystery stories featuring Zoë Boehm and Joe Silvermann. A Russian oligarch is visiting London and elements of The Park want to turn him because a potential future Russian president who owes British Intelligence would be a massive coupe.

Roderick Ho, a computer whiz played on the Apple series by Christopher Chung, got sent to Slough House because he’s a twit.

Sack the useless, and they took you to tribunal for discriminating against useless people,” one character explains. Those in charge quickly figure out the people responsible for the bombing but don’t understand the motive.Below, we'll take a look at all the books in the series, along with some fun extras – the in-between entries (novellas), the TV series, and some of Mick Herron's other work. Slough House provides the hub for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb spy novels, of which Spook Street is the fourth, a series that is by some distance the most impressive new body of work in spy fiction. Outside of Slough House there is Diana Taverner – Lady Di behind her back – the ultra-ambitious Second Desk in charge of Ops. In Ledbury, a half-timbered medieval market town in Herefordshire, Herron and Howard and I checked into the Feathers Hotel, built around 1565 on the post route from Cheltenham to Aberystwyth. Author Mick Herron is just 58, and the crime publishing imprint Baskerville has secured the rights to three more upcoming titles from Herron – one standalone and two more Slough House books.