Clown Town

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'May be the best Slow Horses book to date.'--The Wall Street Journal THE NEW NOVEL IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV Jackson Lamb and the bad spies of Slough House are caught in a deadly battle between MI5's secret past and its murky future in this gripping, hilarious, and heartbreaking thriller by Mick Herron, 'the le Carr of the future' (BBC). 'Old spies grow ridiculous, River. Old spies aren't much better than clowns.' Or so David Cartwright, the late retired head of MI5, used to tell his grandson. He forgot to add that old spies can be dangerous, too, especially if they've fallen on hard times--as River Cartwright is about to learn the hard way. David Cartwright, long buried, has left his library to the Spooks' College in Oxford, and now one of the books is missing. Or perhaps it never existed. River, once a 'slow horse' of Slough House, MI5's outpost for demoted and disgraced spies, has some