About the Author

Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have been published in over twenty-five languages and are the basis of the award-winning TV series Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. Among his other novels are the Zoë Boehm series, also now adapted for TV starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, and the standalone novels The Secret Hours and Nobody Walks. Mick's awards include the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold, Steel and Diamond Daggers. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

Books by Mick Herron

Slough House Thrillers

Slow Horses

Dead Lions

Real Tigers

Spook Street

London Rules

Joe Country

Slough House

Bad Actors

Slough House Standalones

Reconstruction

Nobody Walks

The List

The Drop

The Catch

Standing By The Wall

The Secret Hours

Zoë Boehm Thrillers

Down Cemetery Road

The Last Voice You Hear

Why We Die

Smoke And Whispers

Standalone Books

This Is What Happened

Dolphin Junction

THE LIST

Mick Herron

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First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Soho Press

First published by John Murray (Publishers) in 2017

Copyright © Mick Herron 2015

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