Clown Town, 9781399800457
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Failed spies, missing books, and deadly plots collide. Welcome to Clown Town.
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Clown Town

the new thriller in the bestselling series that inspired the hit show slow horses (slough house thriller 9)

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    9 September 2025

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Summary

Clown Town: A Slough House Thriller

Spies lie. They betray. It’s what they do.

Slow horse River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work. With time to kill, and with his grandfather - a legendary former spy - long dead, River investigates the secrets of the old man’s library, and a mysteriously missing book.

Regent’s Park’s First Desk, Diana Taverner, doesn’t appreciate threats. So when those involved in a covert operation during the height of…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399800457
ISBN-10:1399800450
Series:Slough House Thriller
Author:Mick Herron
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:Baskerville
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:9 September 2025
Weight:0g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm
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Critics Review

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 *

About The Author

Mick Herron

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.

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