04082cam a2200769 4500 2562109722 TxAuBib 20250912120000.0 ||||||s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781641297271 1641297271 B0DPGZK6MJ Amazon 48580c8b-eb0e-4c2f-ac85-1e2783b01b59 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 11405877 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Herron, Mick. Clown Town [Libby eBook]. Soho Press, 2025. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. espionage and spy thrillers. mystery thriller suspense. mysteries and thrillers. suspense thriller books. british intelligence. Murder mystery books. detective novels. Secret Service. thriller books. mystery novels. suspense books. fiction books. mystery books. spy thrillers. Father's Day. slough house. jackson lamb. Gary Oldman. crime books. slow horses. spy novels. Thrillers. mysteries. espionage. spy books. dad books. assassin. suspense. Thriller. troubles. Fiction. mystery. London. novels. police. oxford. spooks. spy. mi5. HTML:<b>"May be the best Slow Horses book to date."<i>—The Wall Street Journal</i><br /> THE NEW NOVEL IN THE SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+<br /> 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 Carré of the future” (BBC).</b><br /> “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.<br /> 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 time to kill while awaiting medical clearance to return to work, and starts investigating the secrets of his grandfather’s library.<br /> Over at the Park, MI5 First Desk Diana Taverner is in a pickle. An operation carried out during the height of the Troubles laid bare the ugly side of state security, and those involved are threatening to expose details. But every threat hides an opportunity, and Taverner has come up with a scheme. All she needs is the right dupe to get caught holding the bag.<br /> Jackson Lamb, the enigmatic and odiferous head of Slough House, has no plans to send in the clowns. On the other hand, if the clowns ignore his instructions, any harm that befalls them is hardly his fault. But they’re his clowns. And if they don’t all make it home, there’ll be a reckoning. Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-09-11 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=48580c8b-eb0e-4c2f-ac85-1e2783b01b59&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=48580c8b-eb0e-4c2f-ac85-1e2783b01b59&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)