Engaging and well written, Slow Horses kept me riveted and guessing- the best compliment I can think of to give a mystery/spy story.
Not being British, I missed some of the references and was lost with some of the argot. It didn’t matter in the end, but I am someone who likes to understand everything, so that was a little annoying.
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| Dead Lions: Slough House book 2 | Real Tigers: Slough House book 3 | Spook Street: Slough House book 4 | London Rules: Slough House book 5 | Joe Country: Slough House book 6 | |
| The disgraced MI5 agents of Slough House uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. | When one of their own is kidnapped, the Slow Horses must outwit rogue agents at the highest levels of British Intelligence, and even to Downing Street itself. | What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a home for spies who forget their secrets are a secret, or does someone take care of them for good? | With the country beset by series of random attacks and one of their own marked for assassination, the Slow Horses rediscover their greatest strength—that of making a bad situation much worse. | Old habits, lost loves, and new blood have the Slow Horses struggling to stay focused, but an old enemy, now out of hiding, may bring them close for a common purpose—vengeance. |
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| Slough House: Slough House book 7 | Bad Actors: Slough House book 8 | Standing by the Wall: The collected Slough House novellas | |
| With a new populist movement taking hold of and the corporate elite ensuring that everything's for sale, the Slow Horses are in a fight for their lives as they navigate dizzying layers of lies, power, and death. | A key member of a think-tank with a remit to curb the independence of the intelligence service has gone missing, and the trail of evidence leads back to MI5's Regent’s Park. | At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-published Christmas interlude 'Standing by the Wall.' |
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Slough House is where MI5 sends its screw ups -- the spies who leave disks of top secret data on a subway car or who tail the wrong guy in a major training exercise or simply burn out from too many white knuckle assignments. Given tedious tasks of dubious value the misfits of Slough House are expected to quit and move on. But once you've trained to be a spy, no other job will work.When a seemingly live newsfeed starts running on British media threatening to behead a Pakistani youth on live TV in retaliation for terrorist acts in the Middle East. The men and women at Slough House, without instruction or authorization, begin to dissect the situation to figure out how to save the young man. Little do they realized that they will be the scapegoats if anything goes wrong.This is a funny twist on the class spy thriller. Mick Herron writes with humor but treats both his characters and his plot with seriousness. This is a well-crafted thriller that is entertaining to read.
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