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Mick Herron and his multi-award-winning series starring Jackson Lamb arrive to brilliantly and humorously modernize the espionage genre.

Soon to be a major TV series/Apple TV+, starring Gary Oldman.

«The best crime novel series of the 21st century.»
The Mail on Sunday

The realm of the irreverent and sarcastic Jackson Lamb is in London and is called Slough House, a dump where secret service members who have made a mistake end up, whether it's forgetting a document on a train, getting distracted on a surveillance round, or becoming unreliable due to alcohol. Their colleagues call them "slow horses," they are the poor relatives of British espionage, and all share the desire to get out of there at any cost and return to action.

Of this eccentric group of outcasts, the most disillusioned is River Cartwright, who spends his days transcribing intercepted mobile phone conversations. However, when a young man is kidnapped and the perpetrators threaten to decapitate him live on the internet, River sees an opportunity for redemption. Is the victim who they appear to be? And what is the relationship between the kidnappers and that disgraced journalist whom the slow horses are investigating? As the clock ticks towards the execution deadline, River discovers that each of those involved has hidden interests, and if the slow horses don't get their act together, the echo of the crime will spread throughout the world.

Praised by The Mail on Sunday as «the most satisfying British spy novel in years» and considered by The Daily Telegraph as «one of the twenty best spy novels of all time», Slow Horses is the first installment of the multi-award-winning series starring Jackson Lamb, a character who will leave his mark with his recklessness and sharp tongue.

Critics have said...
«The new master of the spy novel.»
The Sunday Times

«A funny, elegant, satirical and dizzying story.»
The Guardian

«The best spy novelist of our time.»
The Daily Telegraph

«A masterpiece of the genre. [...] A thriller that brings Herron closer to the category of Graham Greene.»
Daily Mail

«Satire, verbal fencing, and shootouts are skillfully combined in an excellently written novel, tinged with Herron's sense of humor: sarcastic, dry, and very English.»
The Sunday Times