Standing by the Wall, Mick Herron
Standing by the Wall, Mick Herron
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Standing by the Wall
The Collected Slough House Novellas

Author: Mick Herron

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 8 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 01/17/2023

Synopsis

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-published Christmas interlude Standing by the Wall

Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger–winning author of Slow Horses. From the troubled recruitment of a new MI5 informant to a botched
information transfer, Herron’s novellas capture the drama, humor, and high stakes of everyday life in the world of spycraft, a world rife with both legends and secrets, where thrillseeking and loneliness are ubiquitous and deadly, and where the lines between friends, enemies, and lovers
are perpetually blurred by circumstance and subterfuge. For fans new and old, Standing by the Wall is an excellent introduction to the extended literary universe of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses.

About Mick Herron

Mick Herron, British novelist and short story writer, is the author of the Slough House espionage series, four Oxford mysteries, and three standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, the Theakston’s Novel of the Year Award, the Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and the USC Libraries Scripter Award. His works have been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, and Shamus Awards. He was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on December 31, 2023

A nice little Christmas tie-in involving all the usual suspects plus a little nod to Secret Hours. Roddy is in sparkling form and one has to wonder how far his delusions will be allowed to spiral before either Shirley/Lech/Louisa thump him, Lamb throws him through a window or Mr Herron feels the nee......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on November 24, 2022

It's impossible not to enjoy anything Mick Herron writes about Slough House. That said, Standing by the Wall: A Slough House Interlude is very low key, so not much for the reader to get their teeth into. We do get plenty of Roddy Ho's deluded inner monologues which are always a treat. We get an upda......more

Goodreads review by Philip on January 07, 2024

As the subtitle says, this is just a compilation of Herron's previous Slough House novellas/short stories, with the slim and sole addition of what is basically "A Slow Horses Christmas Special," (which you should NOT read unless you have read at least both Slough House and Bad Actors, as it contains......more

Goodreads review by Nick on November 25, 2022

It’s a short but important part of the Slough House saga. At a top level, Roddy Ho is given a job by Jackson Lamb but this short story also delivers a key pointer to the next book that fans will not want to miss (no spoilers). Lots of Slough House banter and interaction and the clever and cutting dia......more

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