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Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas

by Mick Herron

Five Slough House novellas in one volume

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Five Slough House novellas in one volume

This collection brings together five novellas set in Mick Herron’s Slough House spy-fiction world, including the previously unpublished Christmas interlude named in the title. Its episodes range from the recruitment of a new MI5 informant to a failed information transfer, against a backdrop of blackmail, revenge, and state secrets reaching back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Espionage is paired with humor and slapstick, while the description points to loneliness and blurred relationships among people caught up in spycraft. The five included stories are “The List,” “The Marylebone Drop,” “The Catch,” “The Last Dead Letter,” and “Standing by the Wall.”

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers of Mick Herron’s Slough House and Slow Horses books.
  • Readers who enjoy espionage fiction presented as a collection of linked novellas.
  • Readers interested in spycraft, blackmail, and state secrets alongside humor.

Themes

Espionage and spycraftBlackmail and revengeSecrets and state powerLoneliness and compromised relationships

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Book overview

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 thrill-seeking 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. Collection includes: The List, The Marylebone Drop, The Catch, The Last Dead Letter, and Standing by the Wall.
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