Mick Herron

Tasked with protecting a prime minister, Claude Whelan is facing attack from all directions. Over at Slough House, the MI5 satellite office for outcast and demoted spies, the agents are struggling with personal problems and the suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath....

Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up cases in any number of ways....

A thrilling fourth installment in the CWA Gold Dagger-winning Slough House series....

London’s Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers....

A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information. It's also what happens just before you hit the ground. Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones....

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....

Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account - and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account....

In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced spies of MI5, 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's sins make him outcast even among the slow horses....

Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead.....

John Bachelor is the saddest kind of spy: not a joe in the field, not even a desk jockey, but a milkman - a part-time pension administrator whose main job is to check in on aging retired spies. John's been living in a dead man's London apartment....