![]() ![]() Their backgrounds are a mixture of comic incompetence and tragic circumstance: Shakespearean fools and wounded souls. Instead, you will find a particular sort of agent known as a “Slow Horse.” These are spies with one foot already out the door-too much of a liability to entrust with high priority assignments, yet expendable enough to keep on-board to take a fall when the occasion calls for it. ![]() Here you won’t find any George Smileys, James Bonds, Emma Peels, or John Steeds. ![]() ![]() This blend of humor and pathos, high and low brow, has won the series numerous awards (including the CWA’s Steel, Gold and Silver daggers) and a massive international readership set to grow with the production of a Gary Oldman-helmed adaptation of the first two books in the series for AppleTV+.Īt the heart of the series a special, cordoned off branch of MI5, England’s secret service known as Slough House. Imagine John le Carré or Len Deighton writing an episode of The Office: serious spy fiction infiltrated by water-cooler warfare. Web of Intrigue meets Comedy of Errors in Mick Herron’s Slough House series, a deft blend of high stakes espionage and razor-sharp workplace humor. ![]()
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