Books by Mick Herron

Winner of the 2013 CWA Gold Dagger AwardA BBC Front Row best crime novel of the yearA Times crime and thriller book of the year'The finest new crime series this millennium' Mail on SundayDickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination.But once a spook, always a spook. And Dickie was a talented streetwalker back in the day, before he turned up dead on a bus. A shadow. Good at following people, bringing home their secrets.Dickie was in Berlin with Jackson Lamb. Now Lamb's got his phone, and on it the last secret Dickie ever told, and reason to believe an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Service's back-yard.In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, Jackson Lamb's crew of back-office no-hopers is about to go live . . .

*Soon to be a TV series starring Oscar-award winning actor Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb*Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award'The UK's new spy master' Sunday TimesYou don't stop being a spook just because you're no longer in the game.Banished to Slough House from the ranks of achievers at Regent's Park for various crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal, Jackson Lamb's misfit crew of highly trained joes don't run ops, they push paper.But not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a 'slow horse'.A boy is kidnapped and held hostage. His beheading is scheduled for live broadcast on the net.And whatever the instructions of the Service, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quiet and watch . . .

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER AND THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR'If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers' The Spectator'The finest new crime series this millennium' Mail on SundayCatherine Standish knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks.She's worked in the Intelligence Service long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back.What she doesn't know is why anyone would target her: a recovering drunk pushing paper with the other lost causes in Jackson Lamb's kingdom of exiles at Slough House.Whoever it is holding her hostage, it can't be personal. It must be about Slough House. Most likely, it is about Jackson Lamb.And say what you like about Lamb, he'll never leave a joe in the lurch.He might even be someone you could trust with your life . . .

The thrilling new novel in the multi-award winning Slough House series

The fifth Jackson Lamb novel from the 'new king of the spy thriller' (Mail on Sunday)

Catherine Standish ved, at tilfældige møder ikke sker for spioner. Og da slet ikke, når hun står ansigt til ansigt med en tidligere højt dekoreret officer – og tidligere elsker – som har været fængsel og nu er afskediget i unåde. Hun har arbejdet længe nok i efterretningsvæsenet til at kende til forræderi og dobbeltspil.Men hvad hun ikke forstår er, hvorfor nogen skulle vælge at kidnappe netop hende: en tørlagt alkoholiker, der nu skubber rundt med papirdynger sammen med andre fortabte sjæle i Jackson Lambs kongerige af eksilerede agenter i Slough House.Hvem det end er, der holder hende som gidsel, så kan det ikke være personligt. Det må handle om Slough House. Sandsynligvis om Jackson Lamb.Og meget kan man sige om Jackson Lamb, men han vil aldrig efterlade en agent i fedtefadet. Så han sætter sig selv og alle sine Slagteheste i bevægelse for at finde Catherine Standish.

Two Slough House novellas from the 'John le Carre of our generation'

WINNER OF THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER'Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to' Mark BillinghamNever outlive your ability to survive a fight.Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day. He knows better than most that this is no vulnerable old man. 'Nasty old spook with blood on his hands' would be a more accurate description.'The old bastard' has raised his grandson with a head full of guts and glory. But far from joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is consigned to Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House.So it's Lamb they call to identify the body when Cartwright's panic button raises the alarm at Service HQ.And Lamb who will do whatever he thinks necessary, to protect an agent in peril . . .Preorder London Rules, the next Jackson Lamb novel, now.

The latest instalment in the multi-award winning Slough House series

What should have been a simple pick-up turns into a day-long nightmare for Bad Sam Chapman

Jackson Lamb og hans mandskab er alle forvist fra aktiv tjeneste i den engelske efterretningstjeneste MI5s hovedkvarter, Regent’s Park, for forskellige forseelser eller på grund af politiske intriger, og nu befinder de sig i det miserable Slough House, hvor de skubber rundt på papirbunker i stedet for at deltage i operationer. Men ikke én af dem gik ind i tjenesten for at blive en ‘Slagtehest’, som de nu bliver kaldt. Så bliver en dreng kidnappet og holdt fanget. Gerningsmændene truer med at kappe hovedet af ham og vise det ‘live’ på nettet. Og uanset hvad efterretningstjenesten siger, har Slagtehestene ikke tænkt sig bare at sidde og kigge på. "Slagteheste" er på samme tid både nyskabende og en spionthriller i den bedste engelske tradition.

'Good characterisation, dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible' Daily TelegraphWhen a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker - a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life - becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead. What begins in a peaceful neighbourhood reaches its climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man who finds himself being hunted down by murderous official forces.

En terrorgruppe kører ind i en fredelig landsby i Derbyshire og starter en massakre. Kort efter følger flere terroraktioner, og alle alarmlamper lyser rødt i hovedkvarteret for det engelske efterretningsvæsen, MI5, hvor den nye chef, Claude Whelan, i forvejen er klemt i magtkampe mellem en trængt premierminister og den selsmagende politiker, der orkestrerede Brexit-afstemningen. Samtidig, et sted i London, forsøger nogen at slå Roddy Ho ihjel. Hans død ville af hans kolleger ikke blive set som det største tab for menneskeheden, men Roddy hører til i Slough House hos Jackson Lambs lille flok af udrangerede spioner, kaldt Slagteheste, og trods interne kriser og splid passer de på hinanden. Så de går i aktion for at finde ud af, hvem der stræber Roddy efter livet, og i den proces bliver de igen opmærksomme på deres største kollektive styrke: At gøre en slem situation meget, meget værre.I det kaos, der opstår, må de klamre sig til ét lille håb: At Jackson Lamb kender London Reglerne.

*A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.*Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles performed, and he's always been Jackson Lamb's Number Two. So when Lamb has a photograph that needs doctoring, it's Ho he entrusts with the task. Christmas is a time for memories, but Lamb doesn't do memories - or so he says. But what is it about the photo that makes him want to alter it? How would the slow horses cope if Roddy Ho didn't exist? And most importantly of all, are the team having Christmas drinks, and if so, where?Standing by the Wall offers a glimpse into the kind of seasonal merriment you might expect at Slough House, where the boss generally marks the festive season with an increase in hostilities. But then, this is the secret service, not Secret Santa. And the slow horses aren't here to enjoy themselves.Roddy Roddy Roddy? Ho Ho Ho!

*FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING SLOUGH HOUSE THRILLERS*Mick Herron is 'Britain's finest living thriller writer' (Sunday Express) and author of the bestselling and award-winning Slough House novels. Dolphin Junction captures his trademark tension, humour, and suspense in the form of short fiction, collected here for the first time.When a wife leaves her husband under suspicious circumstances, he sets off in search for her, unprepared for the guilty secrets he's about to drag back into the light. A man is tempted by a luxury apartment with a top-of-the-range kitchen. But there is a heavy price to pay for this glamorous new life. A couple go on a hike through the Derbyshire countryside, to ignore the fact their marriage is on the rocks. And there is a peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, the boss of Slough House, as well as stories featuring the shrewd detective Zo Boehm and her hapless partner Joe Silvermann.Dolphin Junction displays Herron's craft for deftly plotted storytelling, dark wit, and memorable twists.'Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to' Mark Billingham'Mick Herron is one of the finest writers of his generation' Steve Cavanagh

A topical Slough House novella from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Da Dickie Bow, en afdanket engelsk agent fra den kolde krig, bliver fundet fundet død i en bus uden for Oxford, ringer der ingen alarmklokker i hovedkvarteret for MI5, det engelske efterretningsvæsen. Det gør der imidlertid hos Jackson Lamb.Dickie var i Berlin samtidig med Jackson Lamb under den kolde krig. Og da Lamb kommer i besiddelse af Dickies telefon med en sidste gådefuld besked fra den gamle spion, får han mistanke om, at en operation i gammel Moskva-stil er i gang i MI5's baghave.Og snart er Jackson Lamb og hans hold af udrangerede agenter, kaldt Slagteheste, involveret i en dødsensfarlig aktion, hvor de fornemmer, at en djævelsk udspekuleret modstander hele tiden er et skridt foran

'This is one of these novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but to see what happens on the very next page' BooklistWhen a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zo Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zo kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And what's brought Sarah's former sparring partner Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down hotel where she's staying? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can't leave until she's found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.

Set in the same world as Mick Herron's bestselling Slough House thrillers, Nobody Walks introduces JK Coe, a fledgling spy who's about to get a harsh lesson in the realities of life on Spook Street

From CWA Gold and Steel Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary

'Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind finale, a marvellously extended set-piece' Kirkus ReviewsZo Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zo wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline's boss is persistent, and as Zo attempts to unlock the secrets of a woman she's never met while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he's found her first. And if he has, will that make her the next victim, or prove to be her salvation from a paralysing fear?