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I was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1943 to a Navy father and mother.

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Mick Herron was born in Newcastle and has a degree in English from Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of nine books in the Slough House series as well as a mystery series set in Oxford featurin…
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