Our expert deal-hunting staff showcases the best price drops and discounts from reputable sellers daily. If you make a purchase using our links, CNET may earn a commission. The Apple TV Plus series is one of my favorites. How great is it that the Book that started it all is now a bargain? All I ever really need is a good book. I'm talking physical media: hardcovers, paperbacks, whichever. Kindles are convenient, sure, but I'm much more likely to pick up print on paper and settle in for the long haul.Which is why I'm thrilled to see that for Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days right now, the paperback edition of Mick Herron's Slow Horses is on sale for just $9.03, down from $16.95 – almost half off. Maybe you're familiar with the Apple TV Plus show of the same name. It's one of my very favorite streaming shows of the last few years, with Gary Oldman as the rumpled, tart-tongued and boozy boss of a shabby stable of spies in career purgatory. Herron's book is what started it all off. This isn't just fun stuff for me: I spent my teen years gobbling up spy thrillers, both books and movies, and it literally got me into the intelligence business back in my 20s.Until last week, I hadn't read any of Herron's books. But I just picked up his latest, The Secret Hours, and I'm about halfway through and loving it. It's not part of the Slough House series per se, but another view into that same world of modern-day British intelligence and London politics (and untrustworthy sorts from both those fields), and every bit as sharply observed and fun to read as Slow Horses, the show, is to watch. And it's got a flashback to spying in Berlin where something important happened. As the book jacket says, it's the "secret history that Slough House fans have been waiting for."I'm curious now to go to the original source material: Slow Horses, the book. I don't have any problem whatsoever reading the book knowing how the TV series has played out so far. The pleasure is in the reading itself, plus seeing how what's on the page got translated to the screen. I suspect that will lead me directly into the rest of the series.Plus: The book that's on sale is the 10th anniversary edition with a foreword by Herron and "an exclusive short story" featuring the Slow Horses characters.Listen, I bought The Secret Hours in hardcover at full price. I'm ecstatic to see this Slow Horses edition at a big discount. I'd be tempted anyway, but that just seals the deal.Oh, and if you're more of an e-reader person, I do believe Amazon might have one or two Kindles discounted as well.
