His captors issue a threat, live on the internet, to behead him. The endless days of tedious and humiliating work here in Slow Horses are interrupted by the abduction of a young British man. Each of the slow horses consigned to Slough House still harbours ambitious dreams to return to the promised land of Regent’s Park – where the serious agents work – even though they know no-one has ever managed it before. Embarrassments include alcoholism, leaving decrypted information on the London Underground, and causing King’s Cross to close in what is only supposed to be a training exercise. It’s the spy world’s version of constructive dismissal. Slough House – as in, ‘so dead you might as well be in Slough’ – is where MI5 sends its agents who have screwed up so monumentally that the service wants them to resign. With such recognition for the author in place, Soho Press has now published the paperback of the first of Herron’s Slough House series which is entitled Slow Horses. Here on Crime Fiction Lover we agreed, and awarded the quirky espionage thriller five stars in our review. Written by Mick Herron - In October 2013, Mick Herron picked up the CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger for his espionage thriller Dead Lions.
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