The Slow Horses. Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after theyve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. This special tenth-anniversary deluxe edition of a modern classic includes a foreword by the author discussion questio.
These are the misfits and goofballs of MI5 who are shunted off to a dingy little building to. But when a young man is kidnapped they realise they cant just sit on the side-lines. 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.
Slow Horses concentrates on the doings of Slough House a dead end dumping ground for disgraced and flunked MI5 spooks and their arch washout the torpid Jackson Lamb a burnt out field operative who supervises from a gloomy garret of an office on the top floor.
But not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse. Theyve screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. With Gary Oldman Olivia Cooke Kristin Scott Thomas Jonathan Pryce. Slow Horses is the first novel in the Slough House series by British author Mick Herron.