Spook Street: Slough House Thriller 4
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Two women dressed in fur coats and high boots emerged from the train, dry as toast, and climbed inside. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. But Herron, as he himself might put it, has never been to joe country and lives nowhere near Spook Street. Delve into the fourth book in the bestselling Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much-loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb.
When one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom, Slough House agents will do anything to save their friend and colleague. 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. There is a sense of real danger from the beginning that leaves the reader in no doubt that none of these characters – many of whom have shared page space for three books so far – are safe, that no-one is guaranteed to survive until the end, and that a happy ending is far from likely. He is the author of the Slough House series, early novels of which have been adapted for the Slow Horses television series. The series concerns MI5 agents who have been exiled from the agency mainstream for various failures.They’re not allowed anywhere near MI5 HQ, which is referred to as Regent’s Park although the organisation is no longer based there. The tone is set by Herron’s characterisation of Jackson Lamb, a belching, farting, swearing sloth of a man who favours low cunning over high-minded principles. I’ve had readers who assume I’m waging a war against political correctness,” Herron said, plainly exasperated. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.
She has corn-silk-yellow hair, pale, delicate features, and, faintly, freckles, and she drives, I decided, not like a taxi-driver but like a cop on a cop show circa 1972. Spook Street is a superb novel - fast-paced, original, witty and completely satisfying on every level. The element of surprise is a constant in the novel, but not for one moment is it anything other than totally convincing. Right from the first book, Herron shows he’s not afraid to kill off his creations and some of those deaths hit very hard indeed. In one scene, Lamb meets Molly Doran in a church and makes a fuss, moaning and groaning as he settles, wearily, into a pew.Tonight at ten, chaos on all fronts for Liz Truss,” the BBC announced the night I boarded a red-eye to London. Outside of Slough House there is Diana Taverner – Lady Di behind her back – the ultra-ambitious Second Desk in charge of Ops. The long and enduring power of Le Carré leaves British espionage fiction a cramped space for newcomers. As they dig into the circumstances surrounding his death, they're drawn into a complex web of Cold War secrets people have died to protect.
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