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Slough House · Book 1

Slow Horses

by Mick Herron

Published
1 January 2010
Pages
333
ISBN-13
9780753186954
Type
novel

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About this book

Slow Horses (2010, 333 pages) opens Mick Herron's Slough House series, introducing the vile, brilliant, permanently flatulent Jackson Lamb and the burnt-out MI5 rejects he runs from a humiliating backwater office. It sets the template the whole series follows: black comedy, Whitehall backstabbing from the real Service at Regent's Park, and a willingness to kill off major characters without warning.

Its place in Slough House

Slow Horses is book 1 in the Slough House series. It is followed by Dead Lions. See the full Slough House reading order.

Slough House is where MI5 dumps the officers it can't fire but won't trust with real work: the screw-ups, addicts and burnouts, exiled to humiliating desk jobs under the vile, brilliant, permanently flatulent Jackson Lamb. Mick Herron's spy novels invert the glamorous-espionage template completely -- his "slow horses" are second-rate by design, and the series' dark comedy comes from watching them get pulled into real, high-stakes operations anyway, usually because Regent's Park (the actual Service, run by…

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