Bestselling author Mick Herron returns to the newsletter this week with our conversation about “Clown Town,” the latest installment in his Slow Horses spy series, published earlier this week by Soho Crime.

If you’ve read the bestselling novels, listened to the excellent audiobooks or watched the Apple TV+ series that returns for its fifth season on Sept. 24 – or maybe you’ve enjoyed all of them – you’ll know the Slow Horses stories offer an engrossing mix of intrigue, comedy and deeply flawed characters.

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Herron and I last spoke in 2022 , and he is a delight: modest, funny, and generous with his time and his thoughts. It’s worth remembering that prior to his recent successes, Herron ha

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