Mick Herron is an award-winning novelist and author of the Jackson Lamb series. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. Mick Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
The new king of the spy thriller - Mail on Sunday The new spy master - Evening Standard It's all sheer fun. Herron is spy fiction's great humorist, mixing absurd situations with sparklingly funny dialogue and elegant, witty prose - The Times Mick Herron is the John le Carre of our generation - Val McDermid Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to - Mark Billingham