London Rules By Mick Herron

The new spy master
Evening Standard

The new king of the spy thriller
Mail on Sunday

The best modern British spy series
Daily Express

Dazzingly inventive. Superbly orchestrated . . . Lamb – the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher
Sunday Times

He's 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

Le Carr� looks sugar-coated next to the acid Slough House novels . . . as a master of wit, satire, insight and that very English trick of disguising heartfelt writing as detached irony before launching a surprise assault on the reader's emotions, Herron is difficult to overpraise
Daily Telegraph

Addictive . . . I cannot recommend these books strongly enough
Nick Lezard, The Spectator

The fifth instalment of the award-winning Jackson Lamb series is witty, sardonic and laugh-out-loud funny yet also thrilling and thought-provoking . . . Herron has often been compared with spy thriller greats John le Carr� and Len Deighton but it is time he was recognised in his own right as the best thriller writer in Britain today. In a series that never lets its fans down, London Rules is the best instalment yet
Sunday Express, *****

It is, as ever, a joy to return to this world: there is a warm, wise, amused depth to Herron's writing, which shines a stark light on the atrocities he describes. He's also horribly funny
Observer

Superb new Jackson Lamb thriller
Irish Times

Mick Herron is the John le Carr� of our generation
Val McDermid

This year's discoveries for me were the spy novels of Mick Herron . . . Herron's Jackson Lamb books are mesmerisingly good, combining the best double, triple and quadruple-crossing traditions of Len Deighton and early Le Carr� with the mordant humour of Reginald Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe novels
Marcus Berkmann, Spectator Books of the Year

London Rules is well up to the high standard of its predecessors, with the usual mixture of jokes and jeopardy at Slough House, the place where MI5 careers go to die under the dubious auspices of the wonderfully repulsive Jackson Lamb
Guardian, Books of the Year 2018

Fortunately, Mick Herron seems to write a new Jackson Lamb novel every year. His latest in this series of wonderful and witty books about the more than eccentric head of a branch of MI5, London Rules, came out on time. I read the first four of these thrillers in a couple of weeks last year. The latest is well up to Herron's usual standards
Chris Patten, New Statesman Best Books of 2018

London Rules by Mick Herron is the latest – and so far the best – bulletin from that twilight home for burned-out spies by the Barbican, Slough House . . . If you haven't read Herron yet you should
Evening Standard, Best Crime Novels of 2018

This is modern British spy fiction at its brilliant best; taut, tense, quirky, funny and thrilling
Choice

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

London Rules takes the Jackson Lamb series to new levels of nerve-shredding tension, leavened as always with moments of eye-watering hilarity – often on the same page
Christopher Brookmyre