Mick Herron's six Slough House novels have been shortlisted for eight CWA Daggers, winning twice, and shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year three times. The first, Slow Horses, was picked as one of the best twenty spy novels of all time by the Daily Telegraph, while the most recent, Joe Country, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Mick Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
This masterful thriller results in superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison Publishers Weekly This is one of these novels where you read it, not just to see what happens at the end, but to see what happens on the very next page Booklist