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  • Slough House, Book 7
  • By: Mick Herron
  • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
  • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.9 out of 5 stars (201 ratings)

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Slough House

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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Publisher's Summary

*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*

**THE TIMES THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR**

***WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022***

The seventh book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb.

'Kill us? They've never needed to kill us,' said Lamb. 'I mean, look at us. What would be the point?'

A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath. What seems a gutless response from the government has pushed the Service's First Desk into mounting her own counter-offensive—but she's had to make a deal with the devil first. And given that the devil in question is arch-manipulator Peter Judd, she could be about to lose control of everything she's fought for.

Meanwhile, still reeling from recent losses, the slow horses are worried they've been pushed further into the cold. Slough House has been wiped from Service records, and fatal accidents keep happening. No wonder Jackson Lamb's crew are feeling paranoid. But have they actually been targeted?

With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets, 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.

©2021 Mick Herron (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Critic Reviews

"The new king of the spy thriller." (Mail on Sunday)

"Razor-sharp prose, fully formed characters and an underlying pathos make this series the most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War." (The Times)

"As a master of wit, satire, insight...Herron is difficult to overpraise." (Daily Telegraph)

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Slough house

Waited so long foe this. Lovely language and pertinent time markers included but story slow this time me

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brilliant as always

Jackson Lamb has to be my favourite character ever. Brilliantly British- sardonic, witty, classless, but does not give a _____ and is remarkable at what he does

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brilliant as always

really good book, the humour is awesome and the narration is brilliant. I think it is the best so far.

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Another great Slow Horses caper

Twists and turns, dark comedy & engaging characters make for another great Mick Herron intriguing read .

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The brilliance continues

Once again, the literacy genius of Herron, presented by the fantastically talented Barrett, combine for this enthralling story. Loved it.

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Brilliant

What penalties apply, I wonder, to those who don’t leave reviews? My neighbours are wondering why I’m wandering around my garden, headset on, laughing. Read the book and you’ll understand. Witty, thoughtful, engaging…you get the idea

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Not enough Jackson

There is not enough Slough House character action. You don’t get a cohesive story / plot lines

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Great detail, less satisfying overall story

Mick Herron’s writing, characters and dialogue are awesome. But I’m still waiting for a story premise and plot that hits it out of the park. The stakes as usual seem rather small-scale, the actors seem always flawed and clumsy in their craft, and the ending is incomplete.

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Highly enjoyable

The Slough House series are excellent, great characters and always enjoyable to the end. Sean Barrett is perfect as always.

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weakest of the slough house stories so far

it has all the usual noncence that you've come to expect but the nobody knows what's going on especially the park and getting caught with your pants down but somehow muddling your way through story is starting to wear a bit thin as nobody can be that incompetent all the time. And I'm talking about the park not the slow horses as yet again highly trained assassins are wondering about doing what they do and as usual the park doesn't have a clue and it's up to the slow horses to save the day which of course they do badly. This has been the plot for the last 3-4 books and it's getting a bit boring. Hopefully the next book will be better as the author is a good writer but this is turning into formula where the plot doesn't change which is a shame and if the next book is more of the same it will be my last. Hopefully this series hasn't jumped the shark.

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