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Mick Herron’s much lauded spy thriller series Slough House has earned him many fans over the past few years thanks to his insightful, humorous take on spycraft and political corruption. He insists that he’s not really writing about politics, telling The Guardian: “I think a lot of what I’m writing about isn’t politics, it’s politicking. It’s the manner in which agendas are carried out. And I do think that regardless of who is in government, there’s going to be a secret element of power wielding…And this is essentially what I’m writing about: it doesn’t matter what the aims of any given organisation are, there are going to be people in those organisations. And, therefore, there will be any manner of petty jealousies, ambitions, spitefulness, kindness. The stuff that goes on in the back rooms.”

It’s this “stuff” and his misfit group of MI5 agents, led by the enigmatic Jackson Lamb, that keep readers coming back for more.