As well as people you truly want kicked to the kerb! There are many subplots but they are worth the page space and it is really, really witty. There is true insight into the life of a spook (well it felt realistic to me) and has a whole host of characters/underdogs to route for. I was struggling with character placement at around page 50 but the writing and the concept kept me ticking over until the slow burning plot came into play.
Jackson Lamb and his team take a bit of time to bed in.
But once a spook always a spook as the reader is about to find out. A misfit bunch of spook rejects slowly rot at a place as dejected as its inhabitants – Slough House. It’s a spy book but not like one you’ve read before. When so many people recommend a book you have to listen and this was the case with Slow Horses. And whatever the instructions of the Service, the slow horses aren’t going to just sit quiet and watch.
His beheading is scheduled for live broadcast on the net. You don’t stop being a spook just because you’re no longer in the game.īanished to Slough House from the ranks of achievers at Regent’s Park for various crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal, Jackson Lamb’s misfit crew of highly trained joes don’t run ops, they push paper.īut not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a ‘slow horse’.Ī boy is kidnapped and held hostage. The final in my ‘It’s really good read it now trilogy’ is Slow Horses by Mick Herron. Books are like buses – you wait for a good one and suddenly three come along at once.
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