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Slough House
*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*`A gripping thriller` Ian Rankin`Genuinely thrilling` Daily Telegraph`Herron`s best novel yet` Sunday Express`Pure joy` The Observer`Brilliant` Literary Review*Intelligence has a new home*Slough House – the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the `slow horses`, are banished – has been wiped from secret service records.Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they`ve been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening.With a new populist movement taking a grip on London`s streets, the aftermath of a blunder by the Russian secret service that left a British citizen dead, and the old order ensuring that everything`s for sale to the highest bidder, the world`s an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the troubles to pass.But the slow horses aren`t famed for making wise decisions.`I think this might be the best Jackson Lamb outing yet` Christopher Brookmyre`Herron has certainly devised the most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley` The Times`This is a darker, scarier Herron. The gags are still there but the satire`s more biting. The privatization of a secret service op and the manipulation of news is relevant and horribly credible` Ann Cleeves`I`ll tell you what, 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`Mick Herron is one of the finest writers of his generation` Steve Cavanagh`I enjoyed Slough House tremendously. Witty, clever and horribly on point. Lots to laugh about while being careful not to miss a word. This isn`t a book to skim read` Kit de Waal`[Jackson Lamb] Herron`s glorious creation propels the story to the bitter end where the non-stop barrage of jokes is fatally undercut by a final shocking twist` Evening Standard`An excellent writer` Sunday Times