Joe Country

By: Mick Herron

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.

In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced spies of MI5, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.

Meanwhile, in Regent's Park, Diana Taverner's tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she's going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil....

And with winter taking its grip, Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible breaks cover at last, Lamb sends the slow horses out to even the score.

©2019 Mick Herron (P)2019 Recorded Books

Devastating

I think I must be mad to keep listening to such devastating stories! I must be a glutton for punishment to care the slightest bit about the fates of such flawed characters. How can I get my hopes up time and again that these characters won't be out maneuvered and brutalized, that there won't be a trail of bodies left in their wake?
Yet here I am, unable to dnf, incapable of looking away from the train wreck of their poor decisions and inadequate support. Once again,
mesmerized by the narration of Gerard Doyle, I finish listening to the tale of misery of a cursed cadre of spies and go looking for the next book in the series.
But first, I'll listen to a rom com written by someone who believes in HEA's.

great series

This series is great. it is filled with British humor. it makes me laugh. which is my highest praise!

excellent installment

I have listened to all of Mick Herron's books in the series Slough House. When I started the first one, I had no idea how much I would enjoy them. The slow horses are disgraced spies put out to Slough House to work. Each one of the spies is scarred and not are easy not to like. I love that we get to hear different people's perspective. Several story lines meet up in cold and snowy Wales. IF you have not read these books, I recommend them highly. They are different, very much like real life, and very well written. So worth a credit and cannot wait for the next one

Everyday secrete service work in a sarcastic Brexit climate.

Honest spy story, some characters are brilliant. Lem is grandness, the ladies are tough and problematic, Great narrator.

One of the best yet…

I thought this plot was much more intricate and interesting but right as the book reached a pinnacle of suspense Herron ended it with a fizzle… (still waiting for Lady Di to take the fall.) And I don’t want to give anything away but I hate when main characters are killed off. It inevitably makes you not want to care about characters because they might die.. ah well. I will keep caring, anyway.

gripping story line

This is among the best novel series I have ever read. I usually avoid series because the stories get repetitive and the characters become thin. In fact, I did not know this was a series when I started reading it. After I had read 3 or 4 of them, I went back and read them all in order. This one is, I take it, the snd of the series. I will probably read it at least once more. I may, at some point in the future, read the entire series through one more time.

Continuing journey of the Slough House Crew finds agents the past.

Loved the book. It was nice to feel the call back characters. Great look at the spy world.

Really outstanding series. Perfectly read.

I really don't know what to compare theses to but have flown through them all as soon as they're released.
Dark stories. Lamb is terrific. The humor! More fun than LeCarre I think though in that ballpark with him and Deighton.
They seem old fashioned. Would love a book or two with Lamb as a young Joe back in the good ole days, as he might say with a snort.

Mick Herron and Gerard Doyle. Perfect!

I love Mick Herron. The Slough House series is simply fantastic. Although certainly not simple. The (sometimes black) humor is fantastic. One of the things I really like is the character development that’s been a part of these books from the beginning. The quirkiness of everyone is what makes them all so interesting. There’s tension right from the beginning because we know two joes are going to die. But we don’t know which two. (Not a spoiler; it’s in the prologue.)

This book is no exception. It’s wonderful. The audio narration by the exceptional Gerard Doyle is, again, perfect.

Love this series

I’m usually making something when listening to books and this is one of the few authors where I tend to pause what I’m doing to close my eyes and enjoy the author’s use of language. Just lovely writing and reminiscent of PD James in this way to me.