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‘To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one’s career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron’s novels – the heir, in a way, to le Carre – is a terrific thing’ Gary Oldman
Spooks are supposed to be stealthy … But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House.
This is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who’ve screwed up. Once high fliers, they’re now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal. In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days – not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action.
So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren’t going to just sit quietly and watch. And unless they can prove they’re not as useless as they’re thought to be, a public execution is going to echo round the world.
‘The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War’ The Times
‘The most enjoyable British spy novel in years.’ Mail on Sunday
‘The new spy master’ Evening Standard
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Slough House Book 1: Slough House, a dumping ground for spies who’ve screwed up through drunkenness, ineptitude, and betrayal. Once high fliers, they’re now slow horses, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action. Slough House Book 2: Dickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination but being dead doesn’t mean you can’t tell secrets. When a message is found on Dickie’s phone, hinting that a Soviet sleeper op is being run, the slow horses go live. Slough House Book 3: When one of their own is kidnapped, the slow horses must outwit rogue agents at the highest levels of British Intelligence, and even Downing Street itself, to get her back. Slough House Book 4: Retired from the Intelligence Service, David Cartwright – grandfather to a slow horse – knows where the bodies are buried. But when he forgets that secrets are supposed to stay hidden, there’s suddenly a target on his back.
Publisher : Baskerville; 1st edition (3 Mar. 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 1399803050
ISBN-13 : 978-1399803052
Dimensions : 19.6 x 3.2 x 12.9 cm
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Customers find the book engaging and enjoyable. They describe the plot as gripping with many twists. The characters are described as witty and well-developed. Readers praise the series quality as brilliant and promising. The intelligence and topical references are appreciated. However, opinions differ on the pacing – some find it great, while others say it’s slow.
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