Slow Horses
Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 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. They're the service's poor relations - the slow horses -...
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Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award 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. They're the service's poor relations - the slow horses - and most bitter among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribi
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9781473621961
ASIN: B00X61MZQC
Publisher: John Murray
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Series: Slough House (#1)
’What you have to bear in mind’--the O.B.’s words--’is that worst sometimes does come to worst.’ The worst had increased exponentially over the last few years. The O.B.'s words of advice for his grandson turns out to be a bit more. I don't think Herron placed this on page 2 to be a thesis state...
I'm no great fan of the genre but this novel, the first in a series, is quite entertaining although it contains the sort of convoluted plot typical of spy novels. River Cartwright has been "exiled" to Slough House along with other MI5 members and a plot involving the kidnapping of a Muslim youth fin...
It's interesting to see how the thriller genre has evolved in almost a decade. At some point, I picked up a later book in this series. It was good enough for me to go back to the first, Slow Horses.While not as vivid or hell-bent-for-leather as current releases by other thriller writers, Slow Horses...
Informationen zum Buch: Der Agententhriller „Slow Horses - Ein Fall für Jackson Lamb“ aus dem Diogenes-Verlag umfasst 480 Seiten und ist seit Ende August 2018 als gebundene Ausgabe und E-Book erhältlich. Worum geht es: River Cartwright, Agent des britischen Geheimdienstes MI5, verpatzt seinen Übun...
I really had no idea what to expect of this book when I picked it up. I ended up really, really, as in thoroughly and completely, enjoying it. Set in London, it revolves around Slough House, the place where spies go to languish after they've made a mess of something. To rely upon this book, as wel...
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