Praise for London Rules

A Times (UK) 100 Best Crime Titles Since 1945
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger
Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
An Evening Standard Best Crime Novel of the Year
A Daily Mail Best Book of the Year
An Irish Times Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year

“Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation.”
—Val McDermid

“Herron cleverly spins the templates of the spy thriller, and his style can bite with the wit of an Evelyn Waugh or Kingsley Amis.”
—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal

"[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

"Slough House, in this winning series, is where incompetent or disgraced British spies spend their days on meaningless busywork. That is, unless they stumble into genuine espionage. Herron is a subtle stylist, and he strikes a perfect balance of big-hearted humor and thrilling spy stuff."
—The Seattle Times

“Hilarious and suspenseful . . . Sharper than most espionage fiction being written today and manages to stay uncannily contemporary.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“The new spy master . . . If Slough House on Aldersgate Street EC1 really existed it would already rival the Old Curiosity Shop on Portsmouth Street WC2 as a landmark of literary London . . . Herron has read his Carl Hiaasen as well as his Charles Dickens. The coruscating cynicism and cartoon comedy do not detract from the seriousness of the message: ‘Hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it.’”
—Evening Standard

“The new king of the spy thriller.”
—Mail on Sunday

“The best modern British spy series.”
—Daily Express

“Herron's comic brilliance should not overshadow the fact that his books are frequently thrilling, often thought-provoking, and sometimes moving and even inspiring. Reading one of Herron's worst books would be the highlight of my month and London Rules is one of his best.”
—Sunday Express

“His character [Jackson Lamb] is a modern Falstaff . . . He's [Herron] been called the heir to Len Deighton—and Mick Herron's latest mordantly funny espionage novel only backs that up.”
—Sunday Times

“London Rules confirms Mick Herron as the greatest comic writer of spy fiction in the English language, and possibly all crime fiction.”
—The Times

“Superb.”
—Irish Times

“Sharper, funnier and more distorted than ever.”
—Literary Review