The Slow Horses. Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. Londons Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away whats left of their failed careers.
This was my first outing with Herron Lamb and the slow horses. The Slow Horses as the failed spies of Slough House are called are doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper but. Theyre the services poor relations the slow horses and bitterest among them is River Cartwright whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations.
In Mick Herrons first book set fully in the spy world we are introduced to the slow horses.
Blurb Slow Horses. Theyre often bait or cover for some ugly scheme by the higher-ups on the food chain and they refuse to stick to their assigned roles. Then the bodies start to pile up. The slow horses as theyre called have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here.