Books written by Mick Herron

Real Tigers

The Bond-esque River Cartwight and his group of defunct MI5 spies, headed by the irascible Jackson Lamb, will do anything to get back into the game.
Spook Street

These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services to watch him.
Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition)

Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work.
Spook Street

We have an armed terrorist on the streets, accompanied by a rogue agent. They present a clear and present danger to the populace.” “You want me to issue a shoot-to-kill order.” “Well there's no point shooting to wound.
Spook Street

These are the questions River Cartwright must ask himself as his grandfather--David Cartwright, a Cold War-era operative--starts to forget to wear pants, and starts believing everyone in his life is someone sent by Services to watch him.
Why We Die

When Arkle released the bolt it whipped past Whitby's headwith inchesto spare, andburied itself in thewooden upright of the ... “I've already told you—” “Because I'm having trouble believing you came all this way just to see how she is.
Bad Actors

Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC), expands his world of bad spies with an even shadier cast of characters: the politicians, lobbyists, and misinformation agents pulling the levers of government policy. “Confirms Mick ...
Dolphin Junction: Stories

Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century.
Joe Country

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.
The Catch: A Novella

British spy master Mick Herron returns with an explosive novella set in the same world as his multiple CWA Dagger–winning Slough House series John Bachelor is the saddest kind of spy: not a joe in the field, not even a desk jockey, but a ...
The Catch: A Slough House Novella 2

'This tightly plotted tragicomedy will provide a welcome fix for addicts awaiting Herron's seventh Jackson Lamb novel' The Times 'Packed with Herron's trademark witty one-liners and sardonic humour . . . it's clear why Herron is a force to ...
Dead Lions

When a Cold War-era colleague is murdered far from his usual haunts, a team of disgraced MI5 spies under the leadership of irascible Jackson Lamb uncovers a shadowy tangle of secrets to a man who hides his dangerous powers behind a false ...
Dead Lions

The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies.
Real Tigers

When one of their own is kidnapped by a vengeful former soldier, the "slow horses"--Disgraced MI5 operatives reassigned to administrative jobs--find themselves back in the game when they uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very future ...
London Rules

Ian Fleming. John le Carré. Len Deighton. Mick Herron.
Nobody Walks

Set in the same fictional London as his CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning Slough House spy series, Mick Herron now introduces Tom Bettany, a man with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son’s death.
Down Cemetery Road

One quiet evening in Oxford, a house near Sarah Tucker's explodes.
Slough House

The privatization of a secret service op and the manipulation of news is relevant and horribly credible.”—Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera Stanhope series At Slough House—MI5’s London depository for demoted spies—Brexit has taken a ...
Reconstruction

In this chillingly plausible thriller by CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron, “there is no hiding under the desk” (The New York Times Book Review).
This Is What Happened

From CWA Gold & Steel Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of thrilling suspense about one woman’s attempt to be better than ordinary.