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The fifth Jackson Lamb novel from the ´new king of the spy thriller´ (Mail on Sunday)

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AND IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER

´The UK´s new spy master´ Sunday Times

London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one.

Cover your arse.

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 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, and someone´s trying to kill Roddy Ho.

Over at Slough House, 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 - that of making a bad situation much, much worse.

It´s a good job Jackson Lamb knows the rules. Because those things aren´t going to break themselves.

Praise for Mick Herron´The new spy master´ Evening Standard

´Herron is spy fiction´s great humorist, mixing absurd situations with sparklingly funny dialogue and elegant, witty prose´ The Times

´Herron draws his readers so fully into the world of Slough House that the incautious might find themselves slipping between the pages and transformed from reader to spook´ Irish Times

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The new spy master Evening Standard

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Herron, Mick

Mick Herron´s first Jackson Lamb novel, Slow Horses, was described as the ´most enjoyable British spy novel in years´ by the Mail on Sunday and picked as one of the best twenty spy novels of all time by the Daily Telegraph. The second, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger. The third, Real Tigers, was shortlisted for the Theakston´s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, and both the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. The fourth, Spook Street, was shortlisted for the Gold Dagger and won the Steel Dagger. London Rules is the fifth.

Mick Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

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