Joe Country: The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 6)

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*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*

'Sets a new bar for spy fiction' Financial Times

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In Slough House, the backwater for failed spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad.


Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.

With winter taking its grip Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends his crew out to even the score.

This time, they're heading into joe country. And they're not all coming home.

'The go-to author for British espionage' Guardian

'Bitingly intelligent, light of touch and frequently hilarious' Observer

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4.7
33 reviews
Janet B
June 20, 2019
4.5 Stars The sixth book in the Slough House series begins with a barn in Wales being set on fire. Two bodies are inside & I was on the edge of my seat from the start. Meanwhile, in London Diana "Lady Di" Taverner, Britain's head of the Secret Service, is up to her usual machinations - wheeling and dealing with politicians to get more funding for the "spooks". In Slough House memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, who we met in the short story The Drop, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career. Another enthralling gripping read from the author, which I found very hard to put down. This series goes from strength to strength & I can't wait for more. Whilst I loved the book I think anyone strating with this book would find it a little confusing as strands & threads from earlier books do continue through the series so I’d recommend starting from the start My honest review is for a special copy I voluntarily read
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Clive Fenn
January 7, 2024
After. a few years away from the Slough House I have returned to visit the team and found them just as I left them. The action speeds along but nothing changes, the dust hangs in the air.
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timothy horn
March 19, 2023
love all his books. just brilliant!
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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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