AuthorMick Herron
NarratorDavid Thorpe, Emma Powell, Julia Franklin, Sean Barrett
Duration8h 29m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Short Stories, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
VersionUnabridged
From the best-selling and award-winning 'master of the spy thriller' comes a collection of riveting short stories. When a man's wife leaves him under suspicious circumstances, he sets off in search for her, unprepared for the guilty secrets he's about to drag back into the light. A man is tempted by a luxury apartment with a top-of-the-range kitchen. But there is a heavy price to pay for this glamorous new life. And a couple with their marriage on the rocks go on a hike through the Derbyshire countryside as another way to avoid their real problems. Hailed as the master of the modern spy thriller, Mick Herron's skill for tension, humour and memorable twists are captured in his short stories, collected here for the first time.
Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 3
Duration 10h 50m
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 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 ha...
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Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Imogen Church
Duration 7h 33m
From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary. Something's happened. A lot of things have happened. If she could turn back time, she wondered how far she would go. Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone you would never look at twice. Livin...
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Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 4
Duration 10h 22m
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 ba...
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Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 5
Duration 10h 58m
Regent's Park's First Desk, Claude Whelan, is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number 10; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in pr...
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Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
Duration 6h 53m
Set in the same world as Mick Herron's bestselling Slough House thrillers, 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 Betta...
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Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 1
Duration 9h 44m
Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who’ve screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They’re the service’s poor relations – the slow horses – and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days a...
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Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 2
Duration 11h 4m
London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their washed-up careers. Now they have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. Slough House’s head honcho, the despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was m...
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Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 7
Duration 9h 49m
A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath. What seems a gutless response from the government has pushed the Service's First Desk into mounting her own counter-offensive—but she's had to make a deal with the devil first. And given that t...
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Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 8
Duration 10h 23m
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. Mea...
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Author: Mick Herron
Author Mick Herron
Narrator Sean Barrett
SeriesSlough House, Book 6
Duration 10h 47m
Like the ringing of a dead man's phone, or an unwelcome guest at a funeral.... In Slough House 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 destro...
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