{"product_id":"standing-by-the-wall-the-collected-slough-house-novellas-isbn-9781641295031","title":"Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas","description":"\u003cb\u003eAt last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-published Christmas interlude \u003ci\u003eStanding by the Wall.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEspionage. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans new and old, \u003ci\u003eStanding by the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent introduction to the extended literary universe of Mick Herron’s \u003ci\u003eSlow Horses\u003c\/i\u003e. Collection includes: \u003ci\u003eThe List\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Marylebone Drop\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Catch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Dead Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eStanding by the Wall\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for Mick Herron\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Confirms Mick Herron as the best spy novelist now working.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—NPR’s \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Compulsively readable, tightly plotted.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"The best in a generation, by some estimations, and irrefutably the funniest.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eJill Lepore\u003ci\u003e, The New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMick Herron\u003c\/b\u003e is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling Slough House espionage series, four Zoë Boehm mysteries, and several standalone novels. His work has won the CWA Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement in Crime Writing, the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, the Theakstons Novel of the Year Award, the Barry Award and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity and Shamus Awards. \u003ci\u003eSlow Horses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDown Cemetery Road\u003c\/i\u003e have both been adapted into Apple Original series. Mick is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.","brand":"Soho Crime","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300172452069,"sku":"NP9781641295031","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781641295031.jpg?v=1767737169","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/standing-by-the-wall-the-collected-slough-house-novellas-isbn-9781641295031","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}