Mick Herron
Mick Herron is an Oxford-based British novelist. He is best known for his Slough House series, featuring a group of dysfunctional spies.
Books by Mick Herron
Bad Actors
by Mick Herron
Mick Herron's latest, the 8th in the Slough House series featuring dysfunctional British spies, gets into the world of politics.
Slow Horses
by Mick Herron
Slow Horses is a spy novel and the first book in Mick Herron’s Slough House series
“In culture, if you do something new, something original, something that hasn’t been seen before, you will be rewarded. Mick’s books are hugely popular, not just here, but everywhere and I think the principal reason for that is that he’s done something new, which is almost to send up the world of John le Carré, to satirize it. His world is located somewhere between the Circus and The Office. The books are very funny, they celebrate failure, heroism against the odds, and have an old-fashioned bawdy, music hall humor. It’s a very clever reimagining of a world that was extremely familiar to readers, from The Spy Who Came in from the Cold onwards” Read more...
The Best Post-Soviet Spy Thrillers
Charles Cumming, Novelist
Joe Country
by Mick Herron
***Shortlisted for the 2020 CWA Gold Dagger***
Joe Country by Mick Herron is the 6th book in a series of what appears to be more spy thriller than mystery books. It’s an interesting, but decidedly odd, book. It was hard to tell why anyone was doing anything they were doing, which could, perhaps be taken as a metaphor for the human condition, or alternatively, a sign that this is not a series to jump into and that you need to start at the beginning. That said, it was still an enjoyable, if peculiar, read.
Interviews where books by Mick Herron were recommended
The Best Post-Soviet Spy Thrillers, recommended by Charles Cumming
With the end of the Soviet Union, many thought the spy novel was dead. Within a decade, it was back, with old antagonists back in different guises and a new raft of international flashpoints to keep both fictional and real-life spies busy. Here, British spy novelist Charles Cumming, author of more than ten books, recommends five key post-Soviet spy thrillers and explains how the genre has evolved since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
