Slow Horses
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781569476437 (1569476438)
Publish date: June 1st 2010
Publisher: Soho Constable
Pages no: 320
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...
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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...