Filtrer
mick herron
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Un vieux briscard du renseignement, qui a fait ses armes dans le Berlin des grandes années, est retrouvé mort dans un bus à Londres. Jackson Lamb, le tôlier la «Maison des tocards», a vite l'intuition que les Russes ont ressorti les bonnes vieilles méthodes du placard. Et le placard, justement, Lamb connaît : il a le douteux privilège de diriger celui du MI5. Roman d'espionnage subtil et prenant, dans la meilleure tradition, «Les lions sont morts», deuxième volet de la saga «Slough House», adaptée pour Apple TV+ sous le titre «Slow Horses» avec, entre autres, Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas et Jack Lowden, a obtenu le CWA Gold Dagger.
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Un jeune agent prometteur du MI5 voit sa carrière compromise après une bourde. Relégué au «Placard», où végètent les rebuts de la profession, il compte les heures en espérant retrouver un jour ses anciennes fonctions. Sauver un jeune Pakistanais pris en otage par un groupe d'extrême-droite pourrait y contribuer... Un roman d'espionnage atypique, sans concession sur la Grande-Bretagne d'aujourd'hui. Premier volet de la série des Slough House.
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«La maison des tocards» est la branche du MI5 où atterrissent les agents secrets en disgrâce qui ont tellement merdé qu'on ne peut plus leur confier des vraies missions de renseignement. Ces espions ratés, ces rebuts de la profession dénommés Tocards, sont condamnés à passer le reste de leur «carrière» à végéter dans ce trou sous les ordres toujours aussi saugrenus de Jackson Lamb, enchaînant les missions sans intérêt, bouffant de la paperasse tout en rêvant de pouvoir un jour sortir du placard et retourner au coeur de l'action.
Un roman d'espionnage truffé d'humour et d'actualités, qui n'est pas sans écho avec l'univers de John Le Carré. -
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
*A 'Book of the Year' in The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Sunday Express, TLS, Irish Times*
'Pure class' Ian Rankin 'Pitch-perfect' Lee Child
'A powerful standalone spy thriller from a true contemporary master' Daily Telegraph
Trying to investigate the Secret Service is like trying to get rid of the stink of dead badger. Hard.
For two years the government's Monochrome inquiry has produced nothing more than a series of dead ends.
The Service has kept what happened in the newly reunified Berlin under wraps for decades, and intends for it to stay that way.
But then the OTIS file turns up.
What classified secrets does it hold? And what damage will it create?
All Max Janacek knows is that someone is chasing him through the pitch-dark country lanes and they want him gone.
WE ALL HAVE JOBS TO DO IN THE DAYLIGHT. IT'S WHAT YOU DO IN THE SECRET HOURS THAT REVEALS WHO YOU REALLY ARE.
'Wonderful . . . high action, a spinning moral compass, and hidden motives on every page' Michael Connelly
*Mick Herron's The Secret Hours was a Sunday Times Number Four bestseller in hardback in the second week of September 2023 -
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is a terrific thing' Gary Oldman
Spooks are supposed to be stealthy . . . But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House.
This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal. In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action.
So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. And unless they can prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public execution is going to echo round the world.
'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times
'The most enjoyable British spy novel in years' Mail on Sunday
'The new spy master' Evening Standard -
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday
From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now.
On Dickie's phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service's back-yard. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.
Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.
'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham
'The spycraft of le Carre refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times -
*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*
*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
***WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022***
''A gripping thriller'' Ian Rankin
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Slough House - the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the ''slow horses'', are banished - has been wiped from secret service records.
Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they''ve been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening.
With a new populist movement taking a grip on London''s streets, the aftermath of a blunder by the Russian secret service that left a British citizen dead, and the old order ensuring that everything''s for sale to the highest bidder, the world''s an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the troubles to pass.
But the slow horses aren''t famed for making wise decisions.
''The most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley'' The Times
''An absolute tour-de-force'' Sunday Express -
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'A pitch-perfect espionage thriller' Sunday Times
In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere.
A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace.
Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar.
Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation.
In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain.
*Includes the short story Standing by the Wall: A Slough House Interlude*
'The foremost living spy novelist in the English language' New Statesman
'This is entertainment of the highest class' Literary Review
'The man is a genius' The Spectator -
Tom Bettany travaille dans une usine de traitement de la viande en France lorsqu'il reçoit un message d'une Anglaise qu'il ne connaît pas et qui lui dit que son fils de vingt-six ans, qu'il n'a pas vu depuis des années, est mort : Liam Bettany est tombé de son balcon londonien tandis qu'il fumait un joint. Pour la première fois depuis qu'il a coupé les ponts avec lui, Tom retourne à Londres, bien décidé à découvrir la vérité sur la mort de son fils. Peut-être mû par la culpabilité, peut-être aussi parce qu'il a mis le doigt sur un complot labyrinthique. Situé dans le même Londres que celui de sa série «Slough House», ce thriller confirme que Mick Herron est l'un des auteurs de roman d'espionnage anglais les plus fins de sa génération.
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*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
'A terrific spy novel' Ian Rankin
Twenty years retired from the Intelligence Service, David Cartwright still knows where all the bones are buried. But when he forgets that secrets are supposed to stay hidden, there's suddenly a target on his back.
The 'Old Bastard' raised his grandson to be a hero, not a slow horse. Now, far from joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is part of Jackson Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House. Which doesn't mean he won't ditch everything and go rogue when his grandfather comes under threat.
Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day, and knows better than most that this is no innocent old man. So when a panic button raises the alarm at Intelligence Service HQ, it's Lamb who's called on to identify the body. And it's Lamb who'll do whatever's necessary to protect an agent in peril.
'A modern masterpiece' Irish Times
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*From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson*
''If you haven''t read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction'' Val McDermid, author of Past Lying
''Good characterisation, dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible'' Daily Telegraph
It''s an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home.
In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing.
With the police more interested in keeping the neighbours from rubbernecking than in searching for the missing child, Sarah becomes obsessed with finding her.
She enlists the help of Zoe Boehm''s investigation agency, but Sarah''s and Zoe''s search reveals more secrets than answers, taking them from Oxford''s cobbled streets to the rugged outer reaches of the British Isles. As Zoe and Sarah draw closer to the truth, they are caught in a web of conspiracy and come up against government forces, cold-blooded mercenaries and vengeful loners.
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If life in the Intelligence Service has taught John Bachelor anything, it's to keep his head down. Especially now, when he's living rent-free in a dead spook's flat. So he's not delighted to be woken at dawn by a pair of Regent's Park's heavies, looking for a client he's not seen in years. John doesn't know what secrets Benny Manors has stolen, but they're attracting the wrong attention. And if he's to save his own skin, not to mention safeguard his living arrangements, John has to find Benny before those secrets see the light. Benny could be anywhere, provided it serves alcohol. So John sets out on a reluctant trawl through the bars of the capital, all the while plagued by the age-old questions: Will he end up sleeping in his car? How many bottles of gin can he afford at London prices? And just how far will Regent's Park go to prevent anyone rocking the Establishment's boat?
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*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*
''The finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years'' Metro
''Masterful'' Daily Mail
''A pulsating spy thriller'' Daily Express
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Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies, former high-fliers now dubbed the ''slow horses''. Catherine Standish, one of their number, worked in Regent''s Park long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back, and she''s known Jackson Lamb long enough to have learned that old sins cast long shadows. And she also knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks, even recovering drunks whose careers have crashed and burned.
What she doesn''t know is why anyone would target her.
So whoever''s holding her hostage, it can''t be personal. It must be about Slough House. Most likely, it''s about Jackson Lamb. And say what you like about Lamb, he''ll never leave a joe in the lurch.
He might even be someone you could trust with your life. -
JOE COUNTRY ; THE BESTSELLING THRILLERS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT APPLE TV+ SHOW SLOW H
Mick Herron
- John Murray
- 3 Mars 2022
- 9781399803090
*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*
*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
'Sets a new bar for spy fiction' Financial Times
****
In Slough House, the backwater for failed spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad.
Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.
With winter taking its grip Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends his crew out to even the score.
This time, they're heading into joe country. And they're not all coming home.
'The go-to author for British espionage' Guardian
'Bitingly intelligent, light of touch and frequently hilarious' Observer -
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
'The best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday Express
At Regent's Park, the Intelligence Service HQ, new First Desk Claude Whelan is learning the job the hard way.
Tasked with protecting a beleaguered Prime Minister, he's facing attack from all directions: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble. Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks.
Over at Slough House, the last stop for washed up spies, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - making a bad situation much, much worse.
'Mick Herron is the John le Carre of our generation' Val McDermid
'Dazzingly inventive' Sunday Times -
'Good characterisation, dialogue and a well-paced narrative make this confident first novel frighteningly plausible' Daily Telegraph When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker - a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life - becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead. What begins in a peaceful neighbourhood reaches its climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man who finds himself being hunted down by murderous official forces.
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**THE DROP**'It is time Mick Herron was recognised in his own right as the best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday ExpressOld spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter. But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly, he sets in train events which will alter lives. Bachelor himself, a hair's breadth away from sleeping in his car, is clawing his way back to stability; Hannah Weiss, the double agent whose recruitment was his only success, is starting to enjoy the secrets and lies her role demands; and Lech Wicinski, an Intelligence Service analyst, finds that a simple favour for an old acquaintance might derail his career. Meanwhile, Lady Di Taverner is trying to keep the Service on an even keel, and if that means throwing the odd crew member overboard, well: collateral damage is her speciality.A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information.It's also what happens just before you hit the ground.
**THE LIST**'Mick Herron is an incredible writer and if you haven't read him yet, you NEED to' Mark BillinghamDieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account - and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.**previously published as two separate editions** -
The eigth book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling ''Slough House'' series by Mick Herron, who has been called ''The new king of the spy thriller'' [ Mail on Sunday ].
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*From the creator of SLOW HORSES and soon to be a major TV series starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson*
''If you haven''t read Zoe Boehm yet, welcome to your next fiction addiction'' Val McDermid, author of Past Lying
''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
When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoe Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoe kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing the jacket a murderer had stolen years before? And what''s brought Sarah''s former sparring partner Gerard Inchon to the same broken-down hotel where she''s staying? Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can''t leave until she''s found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be. -
'Herron is a stylish writer with a mordant sensibility and a deadly wit. He s also a tricky plotter' New York Times Book ReviewWhen Zoe Boehm agrees to track down the gang who knocked over Sweeney's jewellery shop, she's just hoping to break even in time for tax season. She certainly doesn't expect to wind up in a coffin. But she's about to become entangled with a strange collection of characters, starting with suicidal Tim Whitby, who's dedicating what's left of his life to protecting the pretty, battered Katrina Blake from her late husband's sociopathic brothers, Arkle and Trent.Unfortunately for Zoe, Arkle has a crossbow, Tim has nothing left to lose, and even Katrina has her secrets. And death, like taxes, can't be avoided forever.
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'Unexpected and satisfying . . . The engaging heroine never loses her cool, from the melancholy opening to the whirlwind finale, a marvellously extended set-piece' Kirkus Reviews Zoe Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zoe wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline's boss is persistent, and as Zoe attempts to unlock the secrets of a woman she's never met while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he's found her first. And if he has, will that make her the next victim, or prove to be her salvation from a paralyzing fear?
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SLOW HORSES ; LIMITED SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION FROM BRITAIN S GREATEST LIVING
Mick Herron
- John Murray
- 5 Juin 2025
- 9781399825979
*15th Anniversary Special Collector''s Edition*
*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*
''To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one''s career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron''s novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is a terrific thing'' Gary Oldman
Slough House is the outpost where disgraced spies are banished to see out the rest of their derailed careers. Known as the ''slow horses'' these misfits have committed crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal while on duty.
In this drab and mildewed office these highly trained spies don''t run ops, they push paper. Not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse and the one thing they have in common is they want to be back in the action.
''The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War'' The Times
''The most enjoyable British spy novel in years'' Mail on Sunday
''The new spy master'' Evening Standard -
The first book in CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage series starring a team of MI5 agents united by one common bond: They''ve screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what''s left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as theyre called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can''t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle--not unusual in this line of work. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get thereeven if it means having to collaborate with one another. River Cartwright, one such slow horse, is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. But is the victim who he first appears to be? And whats the kidnappers connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone has his own agenda.
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''A first-rate modern thriller'' Daily Mail Set in the same fictional London as the CWA Dagger Award-winning Slough House series, Nobody Walks introduces JK Coe, a fledgling spy who''s about to get a harsh lesson in the realities of life on Spook Street. Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead - Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking pot. Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home to London to find out the truth about his son''s death. But more than a few people are interested to hear Bettany is back in town, from incarcerated mob bosses to those in the highest echelons of MI5. And some of them - like JK Coe - will have cause to regret his reappearance. Bettany might have thought he''d left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.
