Лучшие книги Мика Геррона

Мика Геррона называли «Джоном Ле Карре нашего времени» и новой надеждой британской литературы, сравнивали с Рэймондом Чандлером и Кингсли Эмисом, Ивлином Во и Грэмом Грином, Элмором Леонардом и Джозефом Хеллером. Герроновские романы — это «смешная, на грани фарса, изумительно циничная карикатура на политиков, функционеров, междоусобную грызню и Большую игру» (Booklist), а «хромые кони», они же слабаки из Слау-башни — это проштрафившиеся контрразведчики, наказанные «за пристрастие к наркотикам, алкоголю или распутству; за интриги и предательство; за недовольство и сомнения; а также за непростительную оплошность». Надзирает над ними Джексон Лэм — «Фальстаф наших дней» (Sunday Times) и «один из самых монструозных персонажей в современной литературе» (Бернард Корнуэлл). Но, как известно, бывших «конторских» не бывает, и каждый слабак, занимаясь бессмысленной канцелярщиной, мечтает оправдаться, вернуться на оперативную работу в Риджентс-Парк. А когда террористы похищают подростка и угрожают отрубить ему голову в прямом эфире на «ютубе», слабаки не собираются сидеть сложа руки…

По первым книгам цикла «Слау-башня» запущен в производство телесериал (два сезона сразу), съемки велись в 2020–2021 гг. Роль Джексона Лэма исполнил Гэри Олдман, также в сериале снялись Джек Лауден, Оливия Кук, Джонатан Прайс, Кристин Скотт Томас, Кристофер Чунг. Постановщиком первого сезона выступил Джеймс Хоуз («Мерлин», «Черное зеркало», «Доктор Кто», «Алиенист», «Воспитанные волками»).

Мика Геррона называли «Джоном Ле Карре нашего времени» и новой надеждой британской литературы, сравнивали с Рэймондом Чандлером и Кингсли Эмисом, Ивлином Во и Грэмом Грином, Элмором Леонардом и Джозефом Хеллером. Герроновские романы — это «смешная, на грани фарса, изумительно циничная карикатура на политиков, функционеров, междоусобную грызню и Большую игру»…

'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 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…

Never outlive your ability to survive a fight. Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day. He knows better than most that this is no vulnerable old man. 'Nasty old spook with blood on his hands' would be a more accurate description. 'The old bastard' has raised…

London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 operatives are reassigned to spend the rest of their spy careers pushing paper. But when one of these “slow horses” is kidnapped by a former soldier bent on revenge, the agents must breach the defenses of Regent’s Park to steal valuable intel in exchange for their comrade’s safety. The kidnapping is only the tip of the…

Slough House is the outpost where disgraced spies are banished to see out the rest of their derailed careers. Known as the 'slow horses' these misfits have committed crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal while on duty.
In this drab and mildewed office these highly trained spies don't run ops, they push paper. Not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse and the one thing they have in common is they want to be back in the action.
When a boy is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading is scheduled for live broadcast on the net. And whatever the instructions of their masters at the Intelligence Service headquarters, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quiet and watch.

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;…

A gripping spy thriller from the bestselling author of Slow Horses, about a disastrous MI5 mission in Cold War Berlin—an absolute must-read for Slough House fans.

Set in the MI5 world of Slow Horses, now an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Two years ago, a hostile prime minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating “historical over-reaching” by the British Secret Service. Monochrome’s mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer—and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so.

But MI5’s formidable First Desk did not become Britain’s top spy by accident, and she has successfully thwarted the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that created Monochrome has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust—and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects are washed away by the pounding London rain.

Until the eve of Monochrome’s shuttering, when an MI5 case file appears without explanation. It is the buried history of a classified operation in 1994 Berlin—an operation that ended in tragedy and scandal, whose cover-up has rewritten thirty years of Service history.

The Secret Hours is a dazzling entry point into Mick Herron’s body of work, a standalone spy thriller that is at once unnerving, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny. It is also the breathtaking secret history that Slough House fans have been waiting for.

'We're spies,' said Lamb. 'All kinds of outlandish shit goes on.' 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…

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under…