Slough House (novel series)

This article is about Mick Herron's series of novels. For the Apple TV Series, see Slow Horses.

Slough House
10th Anniversary cover of Slow Horses
AuthorMick Herron
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreSpy fiction
PublisherHachette Book Group
Published1 June 2010
No. of books13

Slough House is a series of spy novels by the British author Mick Herron. Herron began writing the first volume, Slow Horses, in 2008, and published it in 2010.

The series follows River Cartwright and his colleagues, a group of humiliated MI5 agents, who have been relegated to paper pushing jobs. They serve under a crude ageing Cold War era agent, Jackson Lamb, and will do anything to get back into the game.

Herron's books have sold more than four million copies. They have been called a satirical, "rollicking subversion" of the stories of John le Carré.[1]

  1. ^ Lawson, Mark (14 February 2018). "London Rules by Mick Herron review – high jeopardy, big jokes and bigotry". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 27 April 2023.