5/12/2023 0 Comments Slow Horses by Mick Herron![]() ![]() With a new populist movement taking a grip on London’s streets, and the old order ensuring that everything’s for sale to the highest bider, the world’s an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. But they have they actually been targeted? No wonder Jackson Lamb’s crew are feeling paranoid. Slough House has been wiped from Service records, and fatal accidents keep happening. Meanwhile, still reeling from recent losses, the slow horses are worried they’ve been pushed further into the cold. And given that the devil in question is arch-manipulator Peter Judd, she could be about to lose control of everything she’s fought for. What seems a gutless response from the government has pushed the Service’s First Desk into mounting her own counter-offensive – but she’s had to make a deal with the devil fist. What would be the point?’Ī year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from Novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath. ’Kill us? They’ve never needed to kill us,’ said Lamb. ![]()
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