· Slow Horses (Slough House, #1) Published June 1st by Soho Crime. (Adobe EPUB, OverDrive Read, supports Kindle), ebook, pages. Author (s): Mick Herron. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. The first, Slow Horses, was picked as one of the best twenty spy novels of all time by the Daily Telegraph, while the most recent, Joe Country, was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Mick Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford/5(K). Slow Horses is an interesting new take on the Spy Game genre. Instead of the best of the best in modern spy craft, we are introduced to the cast-off's of an offbeat MI-5 division. "Mission Unattainable".
Slow Horses is the first novel in the Slough House series by British author, Mick Herron. 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. Kicking off with 's Slow Horses, Mick Herron's Slough House series has lit a match under the British spy genre. With its world-wary coterie of misfits and starring the cunning Jackson Lamb, Herron is now at the front rank of espionage fiction and considered by many to be the true spiritual successor to Len Deighton. Slow Horses by Mick Herron. Aug. Aug. ~ ozzieslim. Finally, a new focus for the spy genre! The Slow Horses referred to ae spies, that turning their training, on missions or for other reasons have been deemed unfit for James Bond style duty and have been farmed out to Slough House to bide their time doing document dumps.
The slow horses are the spies relegated to Slough House for various crimes and misdemeanours such as drunkenness, drug use and leaving classified material on the tube. They paper push, day after day. But when a young man is kidnapped they realise they can’t just sit on the side-lines. The Slow Horses get ready to run. They called them the slow horses and they belonged to Jackson Lamb. In Mick Herron’s first book set fully in the spy world we are introduced to the “slow horses.” These are the misfits and goofballs of MI5 who are shunted off to a dingy little building to serve their time and, ideally, give up and quit. The book’s plot revolves around the slow horses getting caught up in solving the kidnapping of college student. Mick Herron is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at www.doorway.ru is the author of six books in the Slough House series (Slow Horses, Dead Lions, Real Tigers, Spook Street, London Rules, and the novella The List) and four Oxford mysteries (Down Cemetery Road, The Last Voice You Hear, Why We Die, and Smoke and Whispers), as well as the.
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