London Rules: Slough House Thriller 5
Feb 2018 · Hachette UK
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*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
'The best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday Express
At Regent's Park, the Intelligence Service HQ, its new chief Claude Whelan is learning the job the hard way.
Tasked with protecting a beleaguered Prime Minister, he's facing attack from all directions: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble. Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks.
Over at Slough House, the last stop for washed up spies, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - making a bad situation much, much worse.
'Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation' Val McDermid
'Dazzingly inventive' Sunday Times
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
'The best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday Express
At Regent's Park, the Intelligence Service HQ, its new chief Claude Whelan is learning the job the hard way.
Tasked with protecting a beleaguered Prime Minister, he's facing attack from all directions: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble. Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks.
Over at Slough House, the last stop for washed up spies, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - making a bad situation much, much worse.
'Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation' Val McDermid
'Dazzingly inventive' Sunday Times
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4.6
47 reviews
Clive Fenn
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December 25, 2023
I have yet to watch the TV shows everybody is I am told is talking about but I fail to see how the pictures can possibe get anywhere need those on the page of these books. I am looking forward to being disappointed in the meantime I have a few more books to catch up on.
Dave Allan
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December 5, 2018
As the series develops the characters become more realistic amongst the madness in the author's mind. His plots are plausible and outcomes totally believable while at the same time being implausible and totally unbelievable. I love them.
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Mike Redhead
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July 13, 2018
Great read, can't wait for the next intake Installment...😀
About the author
Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award, two CWA Daggers, been published in twenty-five languages, and are the basis of a major TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He is also the author of the Zoë Boehm series, and the standalone novels Nobody Walks and The Secret Hours. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
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