Get Your Free Audiobook
-
The Drop
- A Slough House Novella
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Series: Slough House, Book 5.5
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thriller & Suspense
Non-member price: $25.82
People who bought this also bought...
-
Joe Country
- Jackson Lamb Thriller, Book 6
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Slough House 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. 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.
-
-
Excellent continuation of the series
- By savage on 10-07-2019
-
London Rules
- Slough House, Book 5
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent's Park's First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote and now has his sights set on Number 10; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble.
-
-
Not ready for the pasture
- By Janette on 02-04-2018
-
The List
- A Slough House Novella
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.
-
-
Excellent
- By Janette on 08-06-2018
-
Spook Street
- Slough House, Book 4
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. And he's not as defenceless as they might think. Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day. He knows better than most that this is no vulnerable old man. 'The old bastard' has raised his grandson with a head full of guts and glory. But far from joining Spook Street, River Cartwright is consigned to Lamb's team of no-hopers at Slough House.
-
-
Laconic prose brings the binds of toil to life
- By Orca on 21-05-2017
-
The Catch
- A Slough House Novella
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything, it's to keep his head down. Especially now, when he's living rent-free in a dead spook's flat. So he's not delighted to be woken at dawn by a pair of Regent's Park's heavies, looking for a client he's not seen in years. John doesn't know what secrets Benny Manors has stolen, but they're attracting the wrong attention. And if he's to save his own skin, not to mention safeguard his living arrangements, John has to find Benny before those secrets see the light.
-
Real Tigers
- Slough House, Book 3
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing paper. But when one of these 'slow horses' is kidnapped by a former soldier bent on revenge, the agents uncover a larger web of intrigue that involves not only a group of private mercenaries but also the highest authorities in the Security Service.
-
-
Fantastic addition to the series
- By Janette on 27-07-2017
-
Joe Country
- Jackson Lamb Thriller, Book 6
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Slough House 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. 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.
-
-
Excellent continuation of the series
- By savage on 10-07-2019
-
London Rules
- Slough House, Book 5
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one. Cover your arse. Regent's Park's First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote and now has his sights set on Number 10; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble.
-
-
Not ready for the pasture
- By Janette on 02-04-2018
-
The List
- A Slough House Novella
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.
-
-
Excellent
- By Janette on 08-06-2018
-
Spook Street
- Slough House, Book 4
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. And he's not as defenceless as they might think. Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day. He knows better than most that this is no vulnerable old man. 'The old bastard' has raised his grandson with a head full of guts and glory. But far from joining Spook Street, River Cartwright is consigned to Lamb's team of no-hopers at Slough House.
-
-
Laconic prose brings the binds of toil to life
- By Orca on 21-05-2017
-
The Catch
- A Slough House Novella
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 2 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything, it's to keep his head down. Especially now, when he's living rent-free in a dead spook's flat. So he's not delighted to be woken at dawn by a pair of Regent's Park's heavies, looking for a client he's not seen in years. John doesn't know what secrets Benny Manors has stolen, but they're attracting the wrong attention. And if he's to save his own skin, not to mention safeguard his living arrangements, John has to find Benny before those secrets see the light.
-
Real Tigers
- Slough House, Book 3
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing paper. But when one of these 'slow horses' is kidnapped by a former soldier bent on revenge, the agents uncover a larger web of intrigue that involves not only a group of private mercenaries but also the highest authorities in the Security Service.
-
-
Fantastic addition to the series
- By Janette on 27-07-2017
-
Nobody Walks
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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. Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking dope. Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home to find out the truth about his son's death. But more than a few people are interested to hear Bettany is back in town. He might have thought he'd left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody really just walks away.
-
-
Great listen
- By Janette on 21-09-2017
-
Dead Lions
- Slough House, Book 2
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their washed-up careers. Now they have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. Slough House’s head honcho, the despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered.
-
-
Awesome read
- By Janette on 05-07-2017
-
This Is What Happened
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense. Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Living alone in a month-to-month sublet in the huge city of London, with no family but an estranged sister, no boyfriend or partner, and not much in the way of friends, Maggie is just the kind of person who could vanish from the face of the earth without anyone taking notice. Or just the kind of person MI5 needs....
-
-
Very disappointing
- By Judith on 24-07-2018
-
Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who’ve screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They’re the service’s poor relations – the slow horses – and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations.
-
-
Fine British Crime
- By Kerry Muir on 16-03-2014
-
Down Cemetery Road
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker 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.
-
A Death Most Monumental
- A Scottish Detective Mystery (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, Book 8)
- By: JD Kirk
- Narrated by: Angus King
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When the remains of a brutally murdered young woman are left hanging from the Glenfinnan Monument in the Highlands of Scotland, DCI Jack Logan and his Major Investigations team are dispatched to investigate. At first, the case appears to be fairly open and shut. But, as evidence mounts, Jack uncovers some shocking truths about the victim that risk turning the investigation into a potentially explosive international incident.
-
-
Plots and laughs
- By Maureen Brown on 08-01-2021
-
The Last Voice You Hear
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zoë Boehm wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline's boss is persistent, and as Zoë 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?
-
Reconstruction
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When a young man breaks into South Oxford Nursery School with a gun and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy is fearful. But Jaime Segura isn’t there on a homicidal mission. Bad Sam Chapman - head of the intelligence service’s internal security force, the Dogs - tries to find out what Jaime is after. But the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 colleague of Jaime’s lover, Miro - who has gone missing with a quarter of a billion pounds....
-
-
Disappointing for fans of Herron’s Slough House series
- By Mary Rita Martin on 05-09-2020
-
Troubled Blood
- Cormoran Strike, Book 5
- By: Robert Galbraith
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 31 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Private Detective Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman asking for help finding her mother, Margot Bamborough - who went missing in mysterious circumstances in 1974. Strike has never tackled a cold case before, let alone one 40 years old. But despite the slim chance of success, he is intrigued and takes it on; adding to the long list of cases that he and his partner in the agency, Robin Ellacott, are currently working on.
-
-
Favourite new fiction of 2020
- By jack on 22-09-2020
-
Smoke and Whispers
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When 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 Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? 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.
-
The Kingdom
- By: Jo Nesbo
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In the far north of Norway a man lives a peaceful existence. However one day his younger brother, always the more successful and charming of the two, turns up to visit, accompanied by his new wife. It soon turns out that the little brother is not quite as angelic as he seems.
-
-
Love it or hate it
- By caroline on 06-10-2020
-
Agent Running in the Field
- By: John le Carré
- Narrated by: John le Carré
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Nat, a 47-year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.
-
-
It's a Cracking Yarn
- By Kirsty on 22-10-2019
Publisher's Summary
A Slough House novella from the 'John le Carré of our generation'.
Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone café, he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter. But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly, he sets in train events which will alter lives. Bachelor himself, a hair's breadth away from sleeping in his car, is clawing his way back to stability; Hannah Weiss, the double agent whose recruitment was his only success, is starting to enjoy the secrets and lies her role demands; and Lech Wicinski, an Intelligence Service analyst, finds that a simple favour for an old acquaintance might derail his career.
Meanwhile, Lady Di Taverner is trying to keep the Service on an even keel, and if that means throwing the odd crew member overboard, well: collateral damage is her specialty.
A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information.
It's also what happens just before you hit the ground.
More from the same
Author
What listeners say about The Drop
Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Amazon Customer
- 03-02-2019
Excellent
Up to the usual high standards. Great story and narration. Looking forward to more soon.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Molly
- 03-09-2019
Short but perfectly formed story.
This is the first short(ish) story I can recall reading where I didn't feel confused, bored or cheated. Mick Herron delivers the same qualities as in his full-length novels – an intriguing plot, enticing characterisations, and shed-loads of ultra dry humour. Seán Barrett's reading is, as always, superlative – rich, humorous and nuanced. I highly recommend all the Slough House and Zoë Boehm books; I've found no other writer within this genre who comes close to the standard set by Mick Herron.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Derek Platten
- 04-07-2019
Contrived but cleverly so.
Missed Jackson Lamb but it appears we will have a new slow horse for him to abuse.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Brian
- 04-06-2019
Great writer and master storyteller
A prep for the next Jackson Lambe book. Introducing a new part of the tale and the next member of the slow horses. Full of the wit and observation that has lured readers along this spectacular series. While short , it is as entertaining as the previous books and renews the readers thirst for more. looking forward to the next novel. This writer never disappoints. keep them coming Mick
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Neal Stothard
- 30-11-2018
Loved it
Although it was a short story, I got into it right away and wanted it to go on. Ended too soon for me and can't wait for the next book.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- AReader
- 05-11-2018
Cameo
Providing you are already a fan, and you realise it only lasts two hours, you will enjoy this. Silkily read by Sean Barrett, as usual. I imagine it is, at least potentially, setting the scene for new characters in a further Slough House novel; an excellent prospect.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Mark
- 04-11-2018
An Entertaining Amuse - Bouche
This is not actually a Slough House novel (it can't be without the incomparable Jackson Lamb in it) but Spook Street Evil Queen Lady Di and the hapless old asset babysitter John Bachelor are at the centre of a nasty little scrabble around 'Snow White' with undeserving winners and losers all round. If this is how MI5 is really run then heaven help us all. I prefer to see it as gorgeously entertaining fiction that whets the appetite for the next full blown Slough House banquet.
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Miss
- 15-12-2020
Story infill
These Slough House novellas give amusing insights to new characters, enhancing the main series' stories.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Jane
- 25-08-2020
Slightly whimsical?
I enjoyed this immensely. The story was perhaps a little more whimsical than other Mick Herron work, but none the worse for that.. The happy (ish) ending and the snow perhaps. As ever, his use of language is sublime, and Sean Barrett is just the best-just the sound of his voice is enough to sell an audiobook to me. Thank you Mick, and Sean.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Annamaria
- 23-05-2020
Same plot of a previous novel by Herron
the exact same plot is included in a slough house recent novel. eccellent narrator, though
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story

- Earnest
- 11-05-2020
Enticing and rewarding double act-drop and catch
What a terrific idea-not new-but aptly employed. First we get a terrific aha moment about past events at our fondly thought of Slough House, then we get a perfect shove towards what I expect the much anticipated novel will grow beyond. How amusingly and provocatively all sorts wander through the pages and embed themselves in our imagination. London continues to glower in the background of these tales. Big. Dangerous. And how vulnerable all the human beings in the city are. Wonder if beyond HRH’s, Brexit, Johnson, the plague will make its presence felt in the next one? But I do wish, sorry about this, but I do wish the novellas weren’t so pricey.
20 Best Fantasy Audiobooks
This genre is so full of talent, it can be difficult to know what to listen to next — so look no further than this list to get you started.



20 Best Nonfiction Audiobooks
From the entire history of humanity to astrophysics, to our gut and mental health, dig into this list and learn something new.



Best Australian Podcasts on Audible
Audible Original Podcasts are free for Audible members. Check out this list of home-grown content, from binge-worthy true crime to self-help.


