Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022 ''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

Vorwort
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)

Autorentext
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 Zoë 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.

Zusammenfassung
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)