Clown Town
The new thriller in the bestselling series that inspired the hit show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 9)
Author: Mick Herron Series: Slough House Thriller
The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron
8th September 2025
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The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron
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The brand new Slough House thriller from the #1 bestseller Mick Herron
Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden----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 the Troubles threaten to expose the ugly side of state security, Taverner turns blackmail into opportunity.Over at Slough House, the repository for failed spies, Catherine Standish just wants everyone to play nice. But as far as Jackson Lamb is concerned, the slow horses should all be at their desks.Because when Taverner starts plotting mischief people get hurt, and Lamb has no plans to send in the clowns. On the other hand, if the clowns ignore his instructions and fool around, any harm that befalls them is hardly his fault.But they're his clowns. And if they don't all come home, there'll be a reckoning.Available to pre-order now!Critic Reviews
Praise for Mick Herron --
The finest writer of espionage fiction we have . . . Herron is simply incapable of writing a bad book -- Mark Billingham
Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer -- Ian Rankin
Britain'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 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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