Slough House

MI5's dumping ground for failed agents.

Slough House is the MI5 office where disgraced or failed officers, the "slow horses", are sent in the hope that they will give up and leave. It is run by Jackson Lamb and gives its name to Mick Herron's novel series.

Quick Facts

Author: Mick Herron
Language: English
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Published: 1 June 2010
Books: 15 (9 novels, 5 novellas, 1 collection)
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Spy fiction

Lore & Background

Despite the name it is not in Slough: it sits in the City of London near Barbican tube station, and the novel gives its address as Aldersgate Street. The name is a play on a slough, a swampy backwater, and its staff spend their days on dull desk work such as sorting rubbish.