Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb Thriller 1 - Softcover

Herron, Mick

9781473641105: Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb Thriller 1

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ISBN 10: 1473641101 ISBN 13: 9781473641105

Publisher: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2016

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Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award

'The finest new crime series this millennium' Mail on Sunday

You don't stop being a spook just because you're no longer in the game.

Banished to Slough House from the ranks of achievers at Regent's Park for various crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal, Jackson Lamb's misfit crew of highly trained joes don't run ops, they push paper.

But not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a 'slow horse'.

A boy is kidnapped and held hostage. His beheading is scheduled for live broadcast on the net.

And whatever the instructions of the Service, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quiet and watch . . .

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Review

Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series: (.)

The finest new crime series this Millennium (Mail on Sunday)

A pulsating spy thriller (Daily Express)

Mick Herron is the real deal (Irish Times)

If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers. Better still, read the whole series (Andrew Taylor, The Spectator)

Surely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years (Metro)

With his poet's eye for detail, his comic timing and relish for violence, Herron fills a gap that has been yawning ever since Len Deighton retired (Daily Telegraph)

The most enjoyable spy novel in years (Mail on Sunday)

A funny, stylish, satirical, gripping story (Guardian)

I was delighted to discover that this is merely the first in a captivating series (Christopher Brookmyre Herald)