by Mick Herron
’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...
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...
"Slow Horses" is a (very) British spy thriller, set in contemporary London, in the post 7/7 bombing world of domestic anti-terrorism. The slow horses of the title are security service people who have messed up and have been cut out of the herd of thoroughbreds with whom they've demonstrated they c...
It sounded good when I read the blurb. I wasn't sure about it until about half way through, but then it really got going and the twists and turns were twisty and turny and suddenly, I couldn't put it down! *LOL*The characters are, for the most part, quite unlikable. Even the erstwhile hero, River...
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