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*pre-order Slough House Now!* *soon To Be A Tv Series Starring Oscar-award Winning Actor Gary Oldman As Jackson Lamb* '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 '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. 'irresistible Writing ... Ironclad Storytelling And Off-kilter Humour' Financial Times 'mick Herron's Novels Are A Satirical Chronicle Of Modern Britain . . . In Their Gleefully Shocking Way, His Books Reflect The Trajectory Of The Nation' Economist Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin. The seventh entry to the Slough House series is as thrilling and bleeding-edge relevant as ever. 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-offensivebut 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. And with enemies on all sides, not even Jackson Lamb can keep his crew from harm. *Soon to be a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* *THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* ** THE TIMES THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR** 'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin Slough House - the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the 'slow horses', are banished - has been wiped from secret service records. Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they've been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening. With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets, the aftermath of a blunder by the Russian secret service that left a British citizen dead, 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. 'The most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley' The Times 'An absolute tour-de-force' Sunday Express "At Slough House-MI5's London depository for demoted spies-Brexit has taken a toll. The "slow horses" have been pushed further into the cold, Slough House wiped from Service records-and fatal accidents keep happening. No wonder Jackson Lamb's crew is feeling paranoid. But are they actually targets? 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. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the trouble to pass. But the slow horses aren't famed for making wise decisions. And with enemies on all sides, not even Jackson Lamb can keep his team from harm. Slough House is the perfect entry point for new readers to discover the thought-provoking, timely, and devastatingly entertaining world of the slow horses"-- Provided by publisher 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, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)