Joe Country

By: Mick Herron

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.

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, 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.

Meanwhile, in Regent's Park, Diana Taverner's tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she's going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil....

And 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 breaks cover at last, Lamb sends the slow horses out to even the score.

©2019 Mick Herron (P)2019 Recorded Books

great series

This series is great. it is filled with British humor. it makes me laugh. which is my highest praise!

excellent installment

I have listened to all of Mick Herron's books in the series Slough House. When I started the first one, I had no idea how much I would enjoy them. The slow horses are disgraced spies put out to Slough House to work. Each one of the spies is scarred and not are easy not to like. I love that we get to hear different people's perspective. Several story lines meet up in cold and snowy Wales. IF you have not read these books, I recommend them highly. They are different, very much like real life, and very well written. So worth a credit and cannot wait for the next one

Everyday secrete service work in a sarcastic Brexit climate.

Honest spy story, some characters are brilliant. Lem is grandness, the ladies are tough and problematic, Great narrator.

One of the best yet…

I thought this plot was much more intricate and interesting but right as the book reached a pinnacle of suspense Herron ended it with a fizzle… (still waiting for Lady Di to take the fall.) And I don’t want to give anything away but I hate when main characters are killed off. It inevitably makes you not want to care about characters because they might die.. ah well. I will keep caring, anyway.

gripping story line

This is among the best novel series I have ever read. I usually avoid series because the stories get repetitive and the characters become thin. In fact, I did not know this was a series when I started reading it. After I had read 3 or 4 of them, I went back and read them all in order. This one is, I take it, the snd of the series. I will probably read it at least once more. I may, at some point in the future, read the entire series through one more time.

Best.

There is no living writer in any genre better than Mick Herron. And there is no better narrator than Gerard Doyle. For full appreciation of their combined greatness, start the Slough House series with the first book and listen in the order they've been issued. This particular book is one of the best in the series, and marks an important turning point in the overarching story. Enjoy.

Kicked it up a notch

But lost his sense of humor
Have been following series
And each book is more complex
and well written
But this story is relentless darkness
Hope the light breaks through for
The next slow horses outing

Dark, funny, and decidedly not PC

Gerard Doyle is one of my favorite narrators and Mick Herron's Slow Horses series is one of my guilty pleasures. I can't help but laugh at some things that I'm not really sure I should find funny. While the book stands on its own I'd highly recommend doing them in order and not skipping The List (SH 2.5) and The Catch (SH 6.5), the short SH mid stories.

Narrator ruined an otherwise good book

The narrator for the audiobook version whispers the entire book. It makes it very difficult to hear, particularly if there’s anything else going on around near you. A good book, but ruined by the narrators performance.

another first class read

Mick Herron knows how to tell a great story: plot, characters, timing, wonderful dark humor, and a little food for thought.