Slough House – The Complete Audiobook Series

Four Slough House novellas collected in a single essential volume: The List, The Marylebone Drop, The Catch, and Nobody Walks. Between them, they fill in the gaps of the main series, sending individual agents on tight, high-stakes missions that the novels have no room to tell. Each story is a compact exercise in tension, dark comedy, and the specific indignity of being one of MI5’s forgotten. The ideal companion to the full series.

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Jackson Lamb runs Slough House, a dead-end posting in London where MI5 warehouses the careers it has given up on. When a young British-Pakistani man is kidnapped by a far-right cell threatening to execute him on a livestream, two of Lamb’s overlooked agents stumble onto a conspiracy that the Service would much rather keep buried. Racing without backup and without authority, they must stop a killing designed to ignite the country. The book that started it all.

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A former Slough House officer is found dead on a train, with every sign pointing to natural causes. Jackson Lamb is not convinced. When an ancient Cold War network begins stirring back to life and a list of dormant sleeper agents resurfaces, the slow horses find themselves digging into secrets that someone is prepared to add fresh bodies to protect. The past, it turns out, has very sharp teeth. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger.

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A body turns up in London carrying a piece of paper that should not exist: a list of the real names and home addresses of undercover MI5 officers. Containing that information before it reaches hostile hands falls to a single Slough House agent who finds that the simplest-sounding assignments are rarely simple in practice. A taut, propulsive novella that moves with the precision of a coiled spring and wastes nothing.

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Catherine Standish is snatched off the street by a professional team that wants access to a classified file inside Regent’s Park, and they are using her as leverage to get it. To bring her back alive, the slow horses must run a black-bag operation against their own Service. Pulling at a single thread, they begin to unravel a conspiracy that reaches all the way to the most senior figures in British intelligence. Nobody here is playing by the rules.

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River Cartwright’s grandfather, once one of the great Cold War spymasters, is showing alarming signs of dementia. Then a suicide bomb tears through a crowded shopping centre, and the trail leads back to a sleeper agent the old man trained and then forgot long ago. The most personal installment in the series so far, one that forces River to question everything he thought he knew about his family and the institution he has given his career to.

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A quiet English village is massacred in what looks like a terrorist attack, the first in a series of seemingly random strikes across the country. Someone is engineering a crisis at the heart of British democracy, exploiting a fractured political moment for purposes that go well beyond ideology. Jackson Lamb’s team is deployed into the chaos and quickly realizes that the most dangerous threat is wearing the right badge and speaking from a very familiar office.

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Roderick Ho is dispatched to handle what should be a routine dead-drop exchange on the streets of London. The operation unravels almost immediately. A sharp, darkly comic novella about the gap between how competent spies believe themselves to be and how competent they actually are, built around the series’ most deluded and strangely compelling agent at his most catastrophically overconfident.

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A young woman connected to one of the slow horses is found dead in rural Wales, and the team follows the trail into cold, isolated country where the rules of the city do not apply. What begins as a private search for answers escalates into something far more dangerous, with consequences that will leave permanent marks on everyone involved. Some missions end in victories. Some exact a price that cannot be paid back.

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River Cartwright is assigned to keep watch on a retired officer suspected of quietly selling intelligence to a foreign power. The surveillance is dull, the subject seems harmless, and nothing about the job should go wrong. It goes wrong. A tightly constructed novella about the moment when routine observation becomes something irreversible, and what the watcher owes the watched when lines begin to blur.

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Someone is targeting the slow horses directly, picking them off in ways that look like accidents. The operation appears coordinated, personal, and very well informed. In the most focused and relentless installment in the series, Jackson Lamb and his team must confront a threat that seems designed not just to kill them but to erase any trace that they ever existed at all. Not everyone here will survive to the final page.

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A senior aide at a prominent Downing Street think tank vanishes without a trace, and the intelligence community begins quietly panicking about what she knew and who she might be talking to. The slow horses are drawn into a labyrinth of political manipulation, foreign interference, and competing agendas that reach the very top of the British government. A razor-sharp satire of the establishment wrapped around a genuinely unsettling thriller.

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The slow horses find themselves entangled in a surveillance operation that has gone badly wrong in the streets of north London. As Jackson Lamb’s team navigates a world where the lines between criminal networks and intelligence work have become almost impossible to distinguish, the comedy gets darker and the stakes climb higher. The ninth Slough House novel confirms the series as one of the most consistently brilliant in British crime fiction.

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A former intelligence officer takes his own life, or so the official account says. When his daughter refuses to accept the verdict, a Slough House agent is pulled into a search for the truth about a man who spent his career keeping secrets for people who have every reason to keep his death quiet. A character-driven novella about loyalty, grief, and what the Service truly owes to the people it chews up and discards.

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A collection of short fiction set in and around the world of Slough House, moving from London backstreets to quieter, stranger corners of England. Some stories expand on familiar characters from the series; others introduce new voices from the edges of the intelligence world. Showcasing the full range of Mick Herron’s precisely observed, mordant prose, this is both a perfect entry point for new readers and an essential gift for those who already know every creak of Slough House.

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