Mick Herron

“... and Louisa watched another car arriving, this one as unmarked as the cop cars, but more so.”

— Mick Herron

“Fear lives in the guts. That’s where it makes its home. It moves in, shifts stuff around; empties a space for itself—it…

— Mick Herron

“Like smokers unable to smell their habit on their clothes, drinkers always thought themselves unaffected.”

— Mick Herron

“And even if she does, she might end up with the life choices of a carrot.”

— Mick Herron

“Besides, leaked evidence would have resulted in a whitewash, or a Select Committee Inquiry as they were also known;”

— Mick Herron

“There is a topic being left unaddressed, and Belwether is starting to feel his way around its edges, like a man sizing…

— Mick Herron

“He has the people skills of a natterjack toad, but he knows his way round the ether.”

— Mick Herron

“Having a cat is one small step from having two cats, and to be a single woman within a syllable of fifty…

— Mick Herron

“Those young-man dreams of living each day as if it were your last, they wore off; showed up, in the cold light…

— Mick Herron

“Avril had the sense they say comes with your last moments; not so much that she saw her life flashing before her…

— Mick Herron

“Because we both know the tide’s turning. The decent people in this country are sick to death of being held hostage by…

— Mick Herron

“The first half hour took a little less than twice that long, which was par for the course.”

— Mick Herron

“How's your career looking?' 'Well, I don't have an arse two inches in front of my nose, so my view beats yours.”

— Mick Herron

“That was the true purpose of Slough House. It was a way of losing people without having to get rid of them,…

— Mick Herron

“It’s a phrase, black swan,” she said. “Means a totally unexpected event with a big impact. But one that seems predictable afterwards,…

— Mick Herron

“Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture.”

— Mick Herron

“He still read copy as if it were Braille; bumps in the language letting him know when”

— Mick Herron

“there was nobody to tell her she was lovely any more, and it was doubtful they’d say so if there were. The…

— Mick Herron