![]() ![]() Hungry for action, River decides he has to do something, but his covert surveillance does not end well. When the newsfeeds show a youth of Pakistani extraction being threatened with beheading by an obscure right-wing extremist group, slow horse River Cartwright immediately makes a connection to the right-wing former journalist whose garbage bag he was assigned to examine as a harmless errand for the Park. Does this make for a harmonious workplace? Indeed it does not! They may all be equally frustrated at their exclusion from real ops, but they barely tolerate each other, and their dislike for their boss is thinly (if at all) veiled. The current staff of nine are assigned riveting assignments like combing Twitter feeds, monitoring overseas student attendances, scanning through mobile phone conversations and comparing real estate purchases with immigration records, by their boss, Jackson Lamb. The “Slow Horses” are banished from Regent’s Park to Slough House where the hope is to bore the dead weights into jumping ship, to get them to quit the Service, ground into submission by routine tasks. Slough House is a repository for inconvenient or incompetent spooks: the spies who have caused embarrassment by leaving a sensitive disc in a tube station or had an affair with the Venezuelan ambassador’s wife, or closed down Kings Cross Station in a training exercise. #DARK READER SLOW SERIES#Slow Horses is the first novel in the Slough House series by British author, Mick Herron. But is the victim who he first appears to be? And what's the kidnappers' connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone involved has their own agenda. They're the service's poor relations - the slow horses - and most bitter among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations.īut when a young man is abducted, and his kidnappers threaten to behead him live on the internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. ![]() Slough House is a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a service file on a train, say, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. 'The finest new crime series this Millennium' Mail on Sunday ![]() Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award #DARK READER SLOW TV#The TV tie-in edition for Slow Horses, the critically acclaimed first book in Mick Herron's bestselling Slough House series, now a major Apple TV series starring Gary Oldman and Kristen Scott Thomas ![]()
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