Slow Horses - Mick Herron
Mick Herron's first entry into the Jackson Lamb/Slough House series is in some aspects a little more low-key compared to how it later develops and is quite slow to get started, but already many of the character traits and the dry sardonic look at the British Intelligence Services is very much in place in Slow Horses . Having said that, after it has taken some time to establish the nature of the dumping ground for failed spooks that is Slough House however, and the types of characters consigned there through incompetence, bad luck and well, personality problems. There is nothing low-key either about an MI5 undercover operation that goes badly wrong, and plenty of action and drama that results in a number of casualties among the ranks of the slow horses. As far as the operation goes, well it's still relevant today even if the post-9/11 world of terrorist activities has moved on and expanded considerably beyond this. A young man has been abducted, put in an orange jumpsuit and ho...