Real Tigers: Slough House

Author(s): Mick Herron

Crime and Thrillers

London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing paper. But when one of these 'slow horses' is kidnapped by a former soldier bent on revenge, the agents uncover a larger web of intrigue that involves not only a group of private mercenaries but also the highest authorities in the Security Service. After years spent as the lowest on the totem pole, the slow horses suddenly find themselves caught in the midst of a conspiracy that threatens not only the future of Slough House, but of MI5 itself ...

General Information

  • : 9781473621220
  • : John Murray General Publishing Division
  • : John Murray Publishers Ltd
  • : 01 February 2016
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 February 2016
  • : 01 April 2018
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Mick Herron
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 368

More About The Product

Mick Herron's first Slough House novel - the Steel-Dagger nominated Slow Horses - was described as the 'most enjoyable British spy novel in years' by the Mail on Sunday. The second Slough House novel, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger, and was picked by the Sunday Times as one of the best twenty-five crime novels of the past five years. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and now lives in Oxford.