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*
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''Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer'' Ian Rankin
''Britain''s finest living thriller writer'' Sunday Express
''The man is a genius'' The Spectator
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Spies lie. They betray. It''s what they do.
Chief of the intelligence service, Diana Taverner, doesn''t appreciate threats. So, when a team involved in a double-agent operation during the height of the Troubles are threatening to expose the truth and lay bare the dark side of state security, Taverner turns this blackmail into an opportunity.
Slow horse, River Cartwright, is out in the cold waiting to be passed fit for work. To kill time, and with his grandfather - a former head spy - long dead, River investigates