The List (Slough House Novella)

by Mick Herron

Overview

Dieter 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781616956417
Publisher:	Soho Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/27/2015
Series:	Slough House Series
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	534 KB

About the Author

Mick Herron is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of the Slough House espionage series, four Zoë Boehm mysteries, and several standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement in Crime Writing, the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, the Theakstons Novel of the Year Award, the Barry Award and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity and Shamus Awards. Slow Horses and Down Cemetery Road have both been adapted into Apple Original series. Mick is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Mick Herron
 
“Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way.”
—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Delightful . . . with a dry humor reminiscent of Greene and Waugh.”
—The Sunday Times, Best Thrillers and Crime Novels of the Past 5 Years
 
“[A] wickedly clever send-up of the classic British spy novel.”
─Crime Writers' Association

“Masterful . . . Superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison.”
─Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
 
"Herron’s remarkable novel has enough suspense, action, and deductive dazzlement to keep genre fans happy. But be warned: these are deep waters, and this is not nodding-off, night-table reading."
─Booklist, Starred Review

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