And unless they can prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public execution is going to echo around the world. 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. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. A slow horse is a member of MI5 working from Slough House an outpost of Five for the outcasts and the failures and the mistakes. 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. On JBy Jeff In MI5, Mick Herron, Slough House, Slow Horses, spy, spy fiction Find even more on the slow horses and the Slough House series here.
Once highfliers, 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. A witty espionage thriller set in modern day Britain, Slow Horses is the first in a series - the sixth Joe Country has recently. This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. His work has been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, and Shamus Awards, and he has won the. He is the author of two books in the Slough House series, Slow Horses and Dead Lions, as well as the standalone thriller Nobody Walks, and the novella The List. But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House - Now a major TV series! Mick Herron was born in Newcastle and has a degree in English from Balliol College, Oxford.
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