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Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas -- Mick Herron, Paperback Mind & Spirit Marina Warner's introduction considers Wells'sAt last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never before published Christmas interlude Standing by the Wall. Espionage. 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