Mick Herron: Slough House Tpb W2 [2021] trade paper back ZCLAS he instead gets swept up

he instead gets swept up in a whirlwind of strange escapades and dizzying adventures

and examines the enduring image of Socrates as the ideal exemplar of the philosophic life - a thinker whose moral and intellectual integrity permeated every detail of his life

Emerald finally reveals to Isadora what has been troubling her

the explosion of his career in the Sixties and his life among celebrities - from working with Elizabeth Taylor to partying with the Rolling Stones - that give a true insight into the mind of one of the most iconic figures in twentieth-century culture

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Mick Herron: Slough House Tpb W2 [2021] trade paper back ZCLAS he instead gets swept up*Soon to be a TV series starring Oscar award winning actor Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb* 'The best thriller writer in Britain today' Daily Express 'As a master of wit, satire, insight Herron is difficult to overpraise' Daily Telegraph 'The greatest comic writer of spy fiction in the English language' The Times 'Kill us? They've never needed to kill us,' said Lamb. 'I mean, look at us. What would be the point?' A year after a calamitous blunder by the