bAt last in one volume the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-published Christmas interlude iStanding by the Wall.ib pEspionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of Slow Horses. From the troubled recruitment of a new MI5 informant to a botched information transfer, Herron's novellas capture the drama, humor, and high stakes of everyday life in the world of spycraft, a world rife with both legends and secrets, where thrill-seeking and loneliness are ubiquitous and deadly, and where the lines between friends, enemies, and lovers are perpetually blurred by circumstance and subterfuge. pFor fans new and old, iStanding by the Walli is an excellent introduction to the extended literary universe of Mick Herron's iSlow Horsesi. Collection includes iThe Listi, iThe Marylebone Dropi, iThe Catchi, iThe La