Best MI5
Dead Lions is Mick Herron’s gripping spy novel set within Britain’s intelligence services. The story follows a team of MI5 operatives, known as “slow horses,” who are relegated to Slough House after professional failures. They investigate the suspicious death of a former agent, revealing a hidden Co...
"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 David Hare's 2011 BBC political thriller starring Bill Nighy as MI5 analyst Johnny Worricker, and it began the Worricker trilogy.
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 spy novel by Stella Rimington, the former Director General of MI5, continuing the fictional espionage operations of Liz Carlyle.
Stella Rimington's 2007 Liz Carlyle thriller, the third in the series by the former Director General of MI5, involves a Russian oligarch and espionage in London.
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 former MI5 director-general Stella Rimington, introducing intelligence officer Liz Carlyle in a contemporary British setting.
