SLOW HORSES

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by Mick Herron (2010)

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When you fuck things up on the job working for MI5, you don’t get the sack, you get banished to Slough House and buried under mind-numbing tedium until you crack and resign. The rundown London facility is headed up by Jackson Lamb, and both are the topic of mockery and sarcasm within Five. But there’s more to Lamb than cut roast and mint sauce. Lamb is an old school field operative who knows a thing or two. And as three homegrown fascists kidnap a local man and threaten to execute him live on the internet, Lamb begins to get a whiff of conspiracy, as if things may not be as they seem. Lamb soon marshals his misfit team, the slow horses, in an effort to locate the hostage and counter the conspiracy he believes is in play. Now back in the field, working on a real case, racing against the clock to save a life, the slow horses must catch on fast and stay out of their own way! Fiction. 328 pages.

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DETAILS:

Title: Slow horses

Year: 2010

Author: Mick Herron

Pages: 328

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Book review by Keith Salter