The fourth instalment in this thrilling yet humorous espionage series about a group of disgraced spies led by the deceptively slobbish Jackson Lamb.

Great book. Well written. I've enjoyed all the books I've read by this author and will be looking out for more in the future.

Thanks very much to the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this title. Many thanks, Dave

Provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

Another well written instalment! I loved the progression of the characters and I’m so glad this one focused on River and the O.B. It all makes so much more sense.

I’m also liking the new characters added and I’m hoping we get to know them soon too.

If you’re not reading Mick Herron then you are missing out on some of the finest storytelling currently being published. These are the spy stories for modern days, the cold war is long behind us and only the dinosaurs in the service remember what it was like when the spooks knew their craft, when missions took them overseas and their lives were in constant peril.

Despite being long retired David Cartwright still keeps his secrets close to his chest but his memory isn’t what it was and he gets so easily confused. His grandson River is also in the service but he blotted his copy book and now resides at Slough House – the dumping ground for agents no longer trusted to work in the field. They are under the supervision of Jackson Lamb – a dinosaur in more ways than one – and Lamb (if you haven’t met him yet) is a dangerous enemy and a terrible human being. He is also hilarous to read about.

David Cartwright is in danger, he is a loose end and someone is tidying house. A killer is sent to end Cartwright’s life but once a spook, always a spook and the dottery old man manages to get one up on his would be assassin. Now River has to find somewhere safe for his grandfather and try to work out what the Old Bastard did in his past which may put his future in peril.

Lamb will protect his team – not through any kind of affection for them – because Lamb would hate the idea of someone other than him making life miserable for any of his Slow Horses. When Lamb is in action nobody will be safe and it isn’t long before some familiar faces find him knocking on their door.

The Slough House books (Spook Street being book 4) will make you reconsider how a spy story should be told. Everyone is playing everyone else and everyone is only looking out for their own interests – except River who is worried about his grandfather. But River is about to discover that his grandfather has been keeping secrets from him too and when old secrets are unearthed it never ends well.

Chase scenes, gun battles, killers and politics – there’s a lot going on in Spook Street and Lamb’s team are right in the thick of it. I had this book waiting on me for quite some time, I am pacing myself with this series as I just don’t want to catch up with the latest releases and find there are no more books to look forward to. The anticipation is great but the enjoyment of reading a new Slough House book is unbeatable.

This is the 4th book in the 'Slough House' series by author Mick Herron. Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who have messed up a case. The "slow horses," are given menial tasks rather than be trusted on bigger cases.

I liked the other books, so not sure why I found this book quite hard to get into. Confusing, muddled characters. I just gave up in the end.

I found this book quite hard to get into which meant that I found most of the story and the characters quite confusing and I struggled to follow the plot. Everyone just seemed to be shooting everyone else and it was hard to decipher who were the good guys and who were the bad. I also found it a little sexist and crude in places. Sorry – just not really my cup of tea.

Love this series, whether called Slough House or Jackson Lamb, just don’t get too comfortable, you never known when someone’s going to die! For the full review go to https://joebloggshere.tumblr.com/post/186137733041/spook-street-by-mick-herron-this-is-the-fourth

Spook Street is the fourth book in the Jackson Lamb series superbly written by Mick Herron. I love Mr Herron’s great witticisms and comical asides. I did however find that it took me longer to get into this book than previously. But once I did it built and built and came to a very unexpected finale.

It now looks all set to continue with new characters appearing as some main characters get bumped off.

Do read and stay with the story

Another enjoyable outing for the Slough House spooks. A good cast of characters and another intriguing tale which was particularly welcome for giving us a little more insight into Jackson Lamb with hints that he wasn’t always - and maybe isn’t now - quite the shambling wreck that he appears.

I just don't get how a spy book set after a terrorist attack and involve going back to the Cold War era of spying and international espionage be so incredibly boring????? The writing is getting worse, the plot is terrible (it's still also incredibly thin) and I can't stand these characters. The writing itself is jumpy and confusing. I've been reading the series so I'm semi-used to Herron's writing style, and I'm still lost and confused.

This book is worse than book 1 for me.

Another compelling read in the excellent "Slough House" series by Mick Herron. Another book that I did not want to put down. I have grown genuinely fond of these imaginary spooks, each with their own quirks, motivations and backstories.

As usual there are twisty-turny sub-plots in abundance - this time involving River's grandfather, a retired and formerly high-level spook, who is now sadly on the verge of what appears to be dementia. This raises the spectre of hmm, what might happen to elderly spooks who might inadvertently give away state secrets? (something that had not previously occurred to me, but is a good question!)

Without giving away the plot, the "slow horses" come into their own yet again, rising above their mundane working existences. New characters add further layers of detail to what we already know about our team, and we begin to see how they've ended up as they are.

In summary, another enjoyable and un-putdownable (is that a word? it is now!) book...and so, on to the next in the series!

My thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read this in return for my honest review.

In all the Jackson Lamb novels I have read, the real enemy is the Secret Service itself, an incestuous, paranoid entity, which creates its own enemies, and which also enjoys the self-consumption of its own body parts. Of those body parts, the least salubrious is the rundown Slough House and its loser occupants.

In this outing for the Slow Horses, their closest approximation to James Bond, River Cartwright, finds himself up against a real, but villainous, version of the superhero spy, as well as a long dormant but deadly project which may have been established by his own spymaster father, now suffering from dementia, whose words are as easily believed as those of Cassandra.

This is as good as any of the other Jackson Lamb novels, inventive, funny and also thought-provoking.

Another fantastic Jackson Lamb novel! The humour, fast-pacing and imaginative storylines make these books unputdownable.

I think this one is the best in the series so far. I've had some mixed feelings in the past, but this time I really enjoyed all of the storylines, I could see the point of Lamb, there were some good shocks, and the whole book felt tightly plotted, with the characters all really secure in who they are.
Looking forward to the next one...

Another example of me reading a series of novels in the wrong order - but, hey, what the heck! This series by Mick Herron is so enjoyable that, even in the wrong order, they give boundless pleasure. If you haven't read any yet it's probably best if you start with the first as there is a wide range of significant characters, all of whom have a part to play in the evolving story around Jackson Lamb's remarkable collection of failures and misfits who repeatedly manage to pull a wide series of chestnuts from an assortment of fires in the different novels. Mick Herron has a rare talent - writing that is at once both effective at creating atmosphere whilst carrying an often complex storyline....and at the same time leavening the narrative with humour that never undermines the story but fleshes out the extraordinary atmosphere in this bit of MI5, the existence of which is seemingly resented by the top echelons of the secret intelligence service - despite its remarkable track record. Very highly recommended.

This is the latest (possibly the last?) of the Slough House series, and I've loved them all. Mick Herron's spies are warmer and more waspish than Le Carre's, but you still get that feeling you are lifting the lid from something that is less full of worms than stuffed to overflowing with rotting vegetation...

A fantastic read. Thoroughly enjoyed this and it is not something I would usually pick up. Will look for more from this author in future.

Another thrilling novel from the Jackson Lamb series. Cleverly pulling together threads from previous books this is a page turning story