Mick Herron is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of the Slough House espionage series, four Oxford mysteries, and several standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.
Praise for the Slough House novels
“Compulsively readable, tightly plotted.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Suspense, spycraft, dry wit and vulgar humor are all well-deployed
in this satisfying work by Mr. Herron, whose style can accommodate
everything from a tough action scene to a lyrical elegy.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Herron writes squeakingly well-plotted spy thrillers. More than
that, he composes—at the rate of a pulpist—the kind of efficient,
darkly witty, tipped-with-imagery sentences that feel purpose-built
to perforate my private daze of illiteracy. More than that, he’s a
world-bringer, the creator of a still-growing fictional universe
with its own gravity, lingo, and surface tension.”
—The Atlantic
“Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation.”
—Val McDermid
"[Herron] really is funny and his cynicism is belied, here and
there, by flashes of the mingled tenderness and anger that seem to
define Britain’s post-Brexit self-reflections."
—Charles Finch, USA Today
"Scathingly funny."
—Newsweek
“Herron blends character, place and espionage into a riveting
melange that I’ve only encountered in the best of John le Carré or
Len Deighton . . . Read one and you're hooked for the whole
series.”
—The Globe and Mail
“Herron’s morbidly witty backdrop hosts incisive storytelling with
a rich mix of engaging characters.”
—Financial Times
“John le Carré with an extra dose of dry humor.”
—The Seattle Times
“A series that hits every mark—wicked, black humor, complex
characters and breathless plotting.”
—The Cleveland Plain-Dealer
“Hilarious and suspenseful . . . Sharper than most espionage
fiction being written today and manages to stay uncannily
contemporary.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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