Slough House is where MI5 sends the agents who have messed up: the "slow horses." Exiled from the action and condemned to push paper, they watch their careers fade — until a young man is abducted and his captors threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the internet. Suddenly, the slow horses find themselves at the center of a conspiracy that the rest of MI5 would rather keep buried.
Jackson Lamb — foul-mouthed, brilliant, and utterly unimpressed by everyone — must decide whether his misfit team can rise to the occasion, or if they'll remain the failures everyone believes them to be. Sharp, witty, and relentlessly gripping, Slow Horses is the book that launched one of the best spy series of the 21st century.
Trending among book lovers for its gritty espionage realism, misfit-team dynamic, and Lamb's unforgettable one-liners. Perfect for fans of John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and dark, character-driven espionage fiction. Now a hit Apple TV+ series — pair with Spook Street (Book 4) for a Slough House set.
A paperback (2010, John Murray) in Good condition.
