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"Slough House" is a spy novel published in 2021 by British author Mick Herron, serving as the eighth installment in his acclaimed "Slough House" series. The narrative follows a team of disgraced MI5 agents, referred to as "Slow Horses," who are exiled to an administrative purgatory under the crude l...

Spook Street is a spy novel written by Mick Herron and published in 2017 as the fourth installment in the Slough House series. The narrative follows the "slow horses," a group of exiled MI5 agents, as they become entangled in a complex plot involving a shopping center bombing and dormant Cold War sl...

Real Tigers is a spy novel published in 2016 by British author Mick Herron. It is the third book in the Slough House series, which follows a group of exiled and incompetent MI5 agents known as the slow horses. The plot centers on a complex conspiracy involving the kidnapping of one of the team's mem...

Published in 2019, "Joe Country" is the sixth installment in Mick Herron's acclaimed Slough House spy novel series. The title derives from British intelligence slang for a hostile or dangerous territory. The narrative follows the disgraced MI5 agents known as "slow horses" as they contend with perso...

London Rules is a spy novel published in 2018 by British author Mick Herron. It is the fifth installment in the Slough House series, which follows a group of exiled MI5 intelligence officers known as "slow horses." The plot intertwines a series of domestic terrorist attacks with internal political u...

Spooks, known as MI-5 in some international markets, is a British television espionage drama that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2011. The series follows the operations of MI5, the British domestic counter-intelligence and security agency. It is noted for its depiction of the high-pressure, morally c...

Page Eight is a 2011 British political thriller written and directed for the BBC by David Hare. The film stars Bill Nighy as Johnny Worricker, a long-serving MI5 intelligence officer who uncovers a potentially explosive secret about the British Prime Minister. It features an ensemble cast including...

The Deadly Affair is a 1967 British espionage film directed by Sidney Lumet, adapted from John le Carré's debut novel Call for the Dead. Starring James Mason as a veteran intelligence officer whose investigation into a foreign diplomat's suicide uncovers a complex web of betrayal, the film alters th...

The Moscow Sleepers is a 2017 espionage novel by British author Stella Rimington, who previously served as Director General of MI5. It is part of the series featuring Liz Carlyle, a British intelligence officer, and uses the idea of Russian sleeper agents as the basis for a contemporary spy plot. Th...

Illegal Action is a 2007 espionage novel by Stella Rimington and the third book in the series featuring Liz Carlyle. The novel places its protagonist within a contemporary intelligence plot involving a Russian oligarch and espionage in London. Rimington’s experience as a former Director General of M...

Dead Line is a 2008 espionage novel by Stella Rimington and the fourth book featuring Liz Carlyle, an MI5 officer. The plot centers on a terrorist threat connected with a Middle East peace summit, placing Carlyle in an investigation involving intelligence work, counterterrorism, and international di...

Secret Asset is a 2006 spy novel by Stella Rimington, the former Director-General of MI5, and serves as the second installment in her Liz Carlyle thriller series.

At Risk is a 2004 espionage novel by Stella Rimington, who previously served as director-general of the British Security Service, MI5. The novel introduces Liz Carlyle, a British intelligence officer who investigates a contemporary national-security threat. Its setting and plot draw on the procedure...