Meanwhile, Claude Whelan, current First Desk, is caught between a weak PM and a populist MP flushed from a successful Brexit referendum. Along with long and gripping mystery thrillers, Mick Herron has also written some great short stories. Herron’s cultivated air of default world-weariness doesn’t preclude outbreaks of icy cynicism and admirable idealism as well as a certain wry self-awareness. When one of their own is kidnapped, the washed-up MI5 operatives of Slough House -- the Slow Horses, as they're known -- outwit rogue agents at the very highest levels of British Intelligence, and even to Downing Street itself.

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Regent’s Park has lost three cold bodies – identities or legends in the trade – worked up by the civil service from birth to provide rock-solid cover cover for a Joe in the field. After years spent as the bottom, the slow horses suddenly find themselves caught in the midst of a conspiracy that threatens the future of MI5. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger–winning author of Slow Horses. Slough House series is not only his most famous book series but also the longest amongst all his book series. John Bachelor is the saddest kind of spy: not a joe in the field, not even a desk jockey, but a milkman—a part-time pension administrator whose main job is to check in on aging retired spies.With it being familiar territory for him, it’s the ideal novel to see a master of his craft at the top of his game, with its expert use of both style and tone. Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from o. He’s overweight, frequently drunk and appears dishevelled, but many enemies make the mistake of underestimating him. Crime thriller enthusiasts who are always on the lookout for a great thriller series would love the works of this British author.

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He is the author of the Slough House series, includingthe CWA Gold Dagger winner Dead Lions,as well as a mystery series set in Oxford.He was raised by his grandfather, David, a service legend, and grew up hearing stories of his time in the service. Herron’s remarkable novel has enough suspense, action, and deductive dazzlement to keep genre fans happy. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, the slow horses see an opportunity to redeem themselves. The book gets fascinating as it shows the struggle of this dysfunctional team trying to execute the mission successfully. This novel is a series highlight for me, and went on to win the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award as well as being shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, The British Book Awards and The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.