Clown Town

Praise for Mick Herron –The finest writer of espionage fiction we have … Herron is simply incapable of writing a bad book – Mark BillinghamMick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer – Ian RankinBritain’s finest living thriller writer * Daily Express *The man is a genius * The Spectator *The foremost living spy novelist in the English language * New Statesman *Herron is at the summit of a new golden age of spy fiction * Sunday Times *A master of espionage fiction * Observer *Mick Herron is one of the beadiest satirists of our times * Daily Telegraph *

Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over twenty-five languages and are the basis of the award-winning TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. Among his other novels are the Zoe Boehm series, also now adapted for TV starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, and the standalone novels The Secret Hours and Nobody Walks. Mick’s awards include the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.