Challenging the tropes of the spy world, Mick Herron’s Slough House book series follows secret intelligence officers banished to desk work owing to bad behaviour. Dubbed “slow horses” by their peers, they’re prone to leaving top-secret documents on trains and chasing down the wrong bad guys.
The first novel, Slow Horses, was published in 2010 – but it didn’t creep into the bestseller charts until years later. Herron has since penned eight more novels in the series, with the latest just released.
