These stories about a disparate group of underdogs coming together to beat the odds (and beat The Man) have struck a chord with readers. Will one of the slow horses die this book? Against a background of Brexit, Novichok poisonings and Yellow Vest protests, the remaining slow horses are dealing with the recent violent loss of two associates. [11] It was originally intended to film earlier in 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. More interesting is the introduction of Desmond Flint and his Yellow Vest movement and the way that Judd is latching onto them. Probably all that really need be said about Slough House is that its well up to the standard of the rest of this brilliant series. Not crucial questions but worth thinking about . Cant think of any current heavy actors. Set in 1950s Finland, during the Cold War, the books tell the story of a young police woman and budding detective who cuts against the grain when, John Fullertons powerful 1996 debut The Monkey House was set in war-torn Sarajevo and was right in the moment. LOOK AWAY NOW. Theyre not allowed anywhere near MI5 HQ, which is referred to as Regents Park although the organisation is no longer based there. Outside of Slough House there is Diana Taverner Lady Di behind her back the ultra-ambitious Second Desk in charge of Ops. For River Cartwright, however, all of this plays second fiddle to the fact that not only is Sidonie Sid Baker still alive, but shes turned up at his dead grandfathers house in Kent because she needs his help. maybe it will. Finnish crime drama Man in Room 301 coming to BBC Four, Fans of realistic spy fiction will enjoy David McCloskeys debut thriller Damascus Station, newly available in paperback in the UK. Beyond the individual storylines exist a set of meta-plots, developing over the series as a whole, which again must be read in order. Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge are the odd couple, though theyre not even a couple. They are expected to endure dull, paper-pushing tasks, along with occasional mental abuse from their miserable boss, Jackson Lamb, who expects them to quit out of boredom or frustration. Bye, Struan. Slough House is Mick Herrons seventh novel about his team of unloved, incompetent though often marvellously effective MI6 spies. This series is perfect for those that want their humor dark and smart. He was raised by his grandfather, David, a service legend, and grew up hearing stories of his time in the service. Thanks to adept storytelling, readers are aware before Lamb (or is that impossible?) As the slow horses try to work out whats going on, they find themselves caught up in events outside their control and in the cross hairs of a ruthless enemy who doesnt care about collateral damage . Jackson Lamb investigates, finding Bough's hidden phone under the seat with the message cicada, and gets the team to look deeper. 'Slough House' is my seventh visit with the British Security Service screwups who have been exiled from the shining high-tech HQ to the grimy dilapidation of Slough House where they live lives of demoralising drudgery, doing nugatory work for the irascible Jackson Lamb. But if you've read any others, and liked them, you'll like this one. These are such fun books that I have to drop everything and read them as soon as each one comes out. Alongside that are running gags, observational humour and the vulgar insults Jackson Lamb regularly spits at his team. But there may be a flavor of wicked humor remaining in what one does afterwardalong with great satisfaction at what Lamb and the Slow Horses pull out of their grubby, out-of-fashion hats. Min wasnt killed by her car, and she was not driving. Being a non-native speaker, reading this series is more than a pleasure, it's an invaluable treasure chest with the modern English, seasoned with wit, sarcasm and Englishness. If that was happening, River needed to stop it. Meanwhile, still reeling from recent losses, the slow horses are worried theyve been pushed further into the cold. [10] In July 2021, filming continued in Stroud, Gloucestershire. She and Min Harper had a brief but intense affair which ended in tragic circumstances. Isnt he explicitly compared to Spall in of the of the early books? that ex-spy Claude Whelan, a tool in use by Taverner, is muddying all possible waters with a notion of payback on Lamb, and hes more effective than young Ashley: Where did Whelans loyalties lie? document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2021 Crime Fiction Lover. He is never without a drink or a smoke, even when the team goes dark, and remains as rude and offensive as ever. Lamb and his team are drawn into a complex and dangerous mess of Judd and Taverners making and, as usual, have to resolve things in their own inimitable style. She clawed her way to the top but was David Cartwrights choice to be the perpetual number two the smarter move? Roderick, a self-anointed master of online information with a blind spot big enough to encompass all human interactions, spends his days wondering just what he did wrong to end up in Slough House. We left her severely injured and MIA until a shocking phone call at the end of Spook . A Russian oligarch is visiting London and elements of The Park want to turn him because a potential future Russian president who owes British Intelligence would be a massive coupe. Your email address will not be published. Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Herrons Slough House is a discard group for MI5 spies whove messed up and now get tedious assignments sorting through social media or phone books or worse. One could certainly be excused for not looking at Lambbetween his predictably terrible farts, his smoking and spitting, and his disgustingly soiled clothing and office, hes both camouflaged and repellent. Standish begins having flashbacks to the death of a former colleague of hers and Lamb's, Charles Partner. Ho notifies River that Chernitsky's destination is Tunbridge Wells, where his grandfather lives. Required fields are marked *. My carefully organized reading list just took a direct hit. Can't praise enough the writing and the way Mr Herron has with words. Larry arrives at a seaport in Harwich, but is shot dead by "The Dogs" on the orders of Tierney, who plant a weapon on his corpse to justify the killing. They never got any credit because all they did was unearth Di Taverner's plot, something that her boss, Ingrid Tierney, wanted brushed under the carpet. A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has lost one of its key members, and Claude Whelanone-time head of MI5's Regent's Parkis tasked with tracking her down. [17], The second season also received critical acclaim. Herron also makes some sharp digs about the role of the media in shaping the political agenda courtesy of newcomer Damien Cantor whose only loyalty is to his own power and wealth. Reviewing and collecting spy fiction and nonfiction. Curly prepares to kill Hassan outside what he believes is a Norman castle, which Ahmed points out is actually a folly. They may be (they are) all failures, but still, they are his, and he doesnt allow anyone to mess with them (much). Lamb instead leaves Katinsky with one bullet left in his revolver, and Katinsky kills himself. I dunno. With Bad Actors just a few short days away, Im ponder what we might see. Its a couple of months after JOE COUNTRY. River Cartwright Apple River was there ostensibly because he messed up a training exercise at Stansted Airport that killed 149 hypothetical people. Involving themselves in the drama, the slow horses soon realise that the machinations of The Park are even more twisted than they could ever have imagined. A befuddled Roddy Hos thoughts on The Parks plumbing is worth the price of admission alone. The London setting, cast of memorable characters and espionage storylines have made the series ripe for adaptation, and its no surprise Apple pulled all the stops, casting such famous names as Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jonathan Pryce and Sophie Okonedo with the production of Slow Horses, which you can now watch on Apple TV+. Lamb calls Katinsky, deducing that he is the supposedly fictional Russian spymaster "Alexander Popov". Pretty much everything extreme one can imagine happens, and it is a wild ride start to finish. This might explain his loyalty to his team when they are in peril, and makes his otherwise rude and bullying behaviour towards them forgivable. Her sometimes ally or enemy depending on which way the wind is blowing is Peter Judd, Tory politician and grandee. She is the sensible mother figure of the group. Soon dominoes are tumbling in various directions, only Lamb really knows their triggers, and as a savior of anyone or anything, Lambs even less likely than Claude Whelan. . She directed MI5 undercover agent Alan Black to infiltrate the group and organise the kidnapping with the intention of then miraculously finding and capturing the gang and freeing Hassan, who, conveniently, was the nephew of Pakistan's Defence Minister, someone it would be useful to impress. Catherine Standish 17 episodes, 2022-2023 Chris Reilly . At the same time, Lamb is out in Oxford looking into the suspicious death of a retired agent. This novel is a series highlight for me, and went on to win the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award as well as being shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, The British Book Awards and The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.Buy now on Amazon, A North Korean hit squad is conducting a terror operation on British soil, and one particular fly in the ointment is that the plan they are working to is one of the Parks own. The main series development is the return of Sid Baker, which was first teased in LONDON RULES but finally Herron reveals that yes, she did survive SLOW HORSES and has spent the last few years recuperating in a Service facility in the Lake District. The audio version is narrated by Sean Barrett. In the aftermath, a dead body in the elder Cartwright's home is identified by Jackson Lamb as being that of River Cartwright. Louisa Guy, another member of the team who has been there from the beginning, is probably the safest pair of hands at Slough House. En route to Regent's Park, Standish is able to free herself and Lamb after pulling a Glock 17 from her handbag, the weapon having been taken from Moody and placed there by Lamb. (Perhaps with the offensive "socially inept Asian tech nerd" clich, which really should have been long buried by now.). The Mandalorian's Pedro Pascal on season 3, Neighbours announces seven more returning cast. A year after a calamitous blunder by the Russian secret service left a British citizen dead from novichok poisoning, Diana Taverner is on the warpath. (LogOut/ Now that the O. [1] Season two premiered on December 2, 2022. His death and the deaths of Lamb's agents in Europe were what provoked Lamb to demand oversight of Slough House, a place where no one would ever again do anything significant, or get hurt. I won't go into the storyline since that can be found elsewhere. Does Unforgotten work without Nicola Walker? The first season received critical acclaim. Still in disbelief.) This coupled with the biting satire and basic humanity of Herrons writing are what have kept me coming back. Just get ready for a jaw-dropping development at the start - and a poignant ending. The only clue he finds is an undelivered text Cicadas. For there has been foreign agents spreading havoc, not least poisoning civilians, in a way that actually happened. I dont mind spoilers I just put them behind a cut so people have a choice of reading on. Lamb retains all of his old skills and is a fearsome operator. But there's more to the story than he reveals to Standish: we discover at the end of Slow Horses that Lamb in fact murdered Partner on the orders of David Cartwright, River's grandfather. Lamb, Cartwright, Min and Louisa, with assistance from Roddy, are able to track them to the same location. Nobody Walks is even set in the same espionage world as a retired spy digs in to his sons mysterious death. With the 2022 release of the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, however, it's come onto the radar of an entirely new set of people - many of them addicted to the twists and turns and delightful subterfuge . Louisa Guy was sent to Slough House after she lost a tail involved in gun smuggling. Lamb and his team flee the property before "The Dogs" arrive, knowing that since the operation has not gone to plan that Slough House will be blamed. Such events, on home turf, require a response and Taverner is keen enough to make that happen to allow Judds involvement. She thinks that there are two people trying to kill her and River doesnt know if its a real threat or something caused by the gunshot wound to the head that she took at the end of SLOW HORSES. He is due to be accompanied by Nick Duffy, leader of 'The Dogs', for added security, but demands Taverner join him instead. Right from the first book, Herron shows hes not afraid to kill off his creations and some of those deaths hit very hard indeed. Desperate Measures reaches nailbiting conclusion. Also see Mick Herrons standalone novels, Nobody Walks and This Is What Happened? The story begins back at old St. Leonard's, the Spooks' Chapel, where River Cartwright's grandfather was laid to rest at the start of Joe Country. To appreciate them fully requires an understanding of what they have gone through before. Wannabe free spirit. . Notable other characters appearing in more than one season include: Notable other characters appearing in Season 1 - Slow Horses include: Notable other characters appearing in Season 2 - Dead Lions include: After making a serious mistake during a live training exercise at Stansted Airport, MI5 agent River Cartwright is demoted to dead end work at Slough House in lieu of being fired. It has been a while since I read one but watching the first series on TV reminded me just how good these books are (and I do prefer them as books). But the trail leads straight back to the Park itself, with Diana Taverner as chief suspect. Blue shirt. Hoped my favorite character would return. Lamb breaks him out, and the two deduce Moody was the gunman sent to kill Hobden. But Bad Actors, eighth in the series, has no connection to performance, despite the title that might immediately pop a stage into the back of an American readers mind. After locating the photo and evading security, he and Lamb threaten to reveal Taverner's operation to the Director-General and the press. Ho traces the number, which places the phone in Estonia. Want to know why? You can buySLOUGH HOUSE by Mick Herron fromAmazon UK,WaterstonesorBookshop.org UK. Spook secrets were dangerous to friends and foes alike, and the old man had made plenty of both down the years. History Season 1 At an airport, River Cartwright gets ready to board his flight while waiting for someone. But I think hes got too old and too thin. A handful of engaging spy thrillers followed before the author paused his novels to focus on journalism, although its also worth noting that he has freelanced. Nobody is assigned to Slough House because of their skills they're all failures of one sort or another. printed out and left in a dead drop in . Shortlisted for a number of prestigious awards including The CWA Steel and Gold Daggers, and The Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year Award.Buy now on Amazon, Claire Harper calls Slough House for help after her teenage son, Lucas, goes missing. In the books, it's briefly revealed that a mistake during her time at Regent's Park HQ led to some guns ending up on the black market. But wasnt it time for a change.. His kidnapping and intended rescue is an unsanctioned false flag operation masterminded by herself to potentially increase cooperation with Pakistan as well as neutralise and intimidate the far-right. Only the intervention of his MI5-legend. Cokehead Shirley Dander's been send to a sanitarium to dry out; narcissist Roddy Ho is creating avatar girlfriends for himself as a distraction; River Cartwright, the most potentially sane of the Slough House discards, isn't even around, presumed dead or permanently missing. But is the victim who he first appears to be? But just as Cartwright was given just enough. Joe Country is a triumph and, in my opinion, the series highlight so far. Unfortunately for Black, one of the racist loons, Curly (Brian Vernel), rumbled him and decided to go through with the decapitation plan for real, beginning with the undercover agent himself. Plus it would be interesting if the focus moved onto Louisa who has never really reckoned with taking those diamonds and who is also quietly competent at the back. ps the casting in the series on screen is wonderful. Well, unless you count Ashley Khan. Those consigned there are known as "Slow Horses". That means Slough House would normally be a safe book for the characters. The website's critics consensus reads, "Slow Horses refreshes the espionage genre by letting its band of snoops be bumbling, with Gary Oldman giving a masterclass in frumpy authority. It is always a joy when a new addition to Mick Herron's superb Slow Horses series makes an appearance, and believe me when I say this one lives up to all my high expectations, smart, razor sharp satire and comic humour, unparalleled in its ability to follow and echo the nightmare that is our contemporary British politics and Brexit. Moody returns to Slough House and attacks Min and Louisa when they re-enter, but is killed when he breaks his neck falling down the stairs in a scuffle. Slovenly, rude, and apparently drunk most of the time. In the seventh installment of this series, Mick Herron returns to the convoluted and devious world of the British Secret Service and the inhabitants of Slough House.These Joes are the disgraced of the secret world, shunted aside and relegated to meaningless tasks that underscore their irrelevance. So it seems clear that she got exiled to Slough House for a drunken mistake. At the height of the war on terror, a British subject is abducted by a terror cell and his beheading is to be streamed live on the internet, but the young man is a British Asian Muslim and the terror cell part of a far-right splinter group. Unlike the rest of the team, the reason for Lambs demotion to Slough House is never revealed. The best way to find out is to read the series. He was nobodys idea of an avenging knight. So hed broken Ashleys arm and sent her back to Taverner, whose acid response was, You broke her, you own her. Back to Slough House she went. Hassan Ahmed is finally rescued by River Cartwright and the Slow Horses and survives the traumatic kidnapping. Former field agent Richard Bough, aka Dickie Bow, recognizes a man who tortured him during the Cold War, follows him, and dies on a rail replacement bus of an apparent heart attack. EXCERPT: The study remained like a showroom in a vacant property - books, chairs, curtains; the shelf with its odd collection of trophies: a glass globe, a hunk of concrete, a lump of metal that had been a Luger; the desk with its sheet of blotting paper, like something out of Dickens, and the letter opener, which was an actual stiletto, and had once belonged to Beria - and if David Cartwright had left secrets in his wake they'd be somewhere in that room, on those shelves, among a billion other words. Questions that we will likely get answered right away in Slough House . While she obsesses on punishing Lamb, the team is actually in crisis mode. I particularly liked one scene between Lamb and Lady Di that showed the frustration she feels towards him but also the grudging respect she also has for his opinion and how that comes with Lambs utter contempt for what she stands for. This season is based on the second of the best-selling Slough House novels by Mick Herron, Dead Lions, and once again stars the dynamic duo of Gary Oldman and Jack Lowden as Jackson Lamb and River . Is River really dead? Believing he was targeted also, Lamb investigates Rebecca, the driver, and discovers she has connections to Russia and previously lived in Vladivostok. The devils in this case are Peter Judd, a thinly veiled Boris Johnson, and young, wealthy new tech and online Channel Go media owner, Damien Cantor, looking to outwit and own Diana, who frankly admits to the corpulent and flatulent Jackson Lamb that she has made an error. Not that Mick Herron pays the slightest attention to what his fans want, but I for one would love to see the return of Sid, and would welcome possible Sid-River interactions, but I guess thats not in the cards. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2021 Crime Fiction Lover. If I was being nit-picky, then Id question why Lady Di didnt do her due diligence before getting back in withJudd given how careful she usually is, but equally Herron does make clear they had history together and the nature of the revelation does hold a lot of delicious possibilities for future books given how ensnared Lady Di now is. Spook Street is one of the darker novels and what little comic relief there is, is provided by Roddy Ho getting a girlfriend, a plot thread which is pulled in the follow up novel, London Rules. Louisa and Longridge pursue and kill Pashkin when he attempts to escape the Glasshouse, having betrayed and killed Piotr to steal an extra stash of diamonds along the way. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. The fun (and poignant bonding) of Bad Actors lies in watching all the others, at Slough House and beyond, gradually realize that only Lambs irreverent demands and plans are likely to get them out of a mess thats so absurd, so wracked with capers and collapses, then even Claude Whelan will say he cant tear his eyes away. Louisa Guy goes to Pembrokeshire to find him; after all she had been in a relationship with Min, another slow horse and Lucas father. I also really wanted to see Rivers mum make an appearance and will feel cheated if its just at his funeral. Dead Lions - which went on to win the highly coveted Gold Dagger award for best novel of the year from the Crime Writers . Regents Park has lost three cold bodies identities or legends in the trade worked up by the civil service from birth to provide rock-solid cover cover for a Joe in the field. Your email address will not be published. Also interesting in this context are the continued allusions to Lambs poor health, which seems to be worsening, and does not bode well for future books, although we also see more of Lambs ruthless side here as well as his loyalty to his joes and to those who help his joes (one scene at the end where a side character who said something revolting to Molly gets his dues is particularly satisfying). Sadly it wasn't enough to prevent her from being shot by her colleague Jed Moody, who she interrupted when he was trying to clean up Taverner's operation. Hes ineffectual, arrogant and completely unaware of his failings. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The end of Joe Country saw Rivers father/nemesis Frank Harkness dead. I was delighted to receive the latest Slough House novel seventh in a series which is current, political, clever, witty and realistic. The doctor will see you now Victoria Selman, Fans of realistic spy fiction will enjoy David McCloskeys debut thriller Damascus Station, newly available in paperback in the UK. i wish it would go on forever. Newcomer Marcus Longridge replaces Min on the Pashkin assignment, and confesses to Louisa he has a gambling addiction. Your email address will not be published. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. Charles Partner was, in fact, a double agent at the top of MI5, and had been getting away with selling Britain's secrets for years thanks to the befuddled ignorance of his alcoholic assistant, Catherine Standish. There are hysterical episodes, ridiculous circumstances hard to accept and poignant moments for good measure. When River Cartwright was relegated to Slough House, he was too young to have developed the legendary skill set of which Jackson Lamb can boast. The show begins with young MI5 agent River Cartwright amidst a terror-threat situation at the Stansted airport, where he has to follow an Asian male in his 20s and apprehend him before he sets off a fatal explosion. Mick Herron has done it again. . figure, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II - Xbox cross-gen bundle (EU & UK), Anker PowerCore Essential 20,000 PD Power Bank, Nope explained: Jean Jacket, Gordy's Home and more. Diana Taverner finds herself making some bad decisions in this novel; not the least her involvement with Peter Judd, who bears more than a little resemblance to our current Prime Minister. Robert M. Cartwright, 82, of Toms River, passed away on Friday, Nov. 15, 2013 at Community Medical Center in Toms River. Finish it. First Slow Horse book, after reading quite a few chapters, i could not get Into. It turns out that the British term bad actor means a person whos done things that are harmful, illegal, or immoral. I am currently well into Bad Actors desperate to know if certain casualties from this book survived, and even hoping for a tiny spoiler so as to prepare myself for the worst, if that is to be the outcome. Top 9 Burning Questions going in to Slough House, The Oxford Series and other Mick Herron novels, Barbican Station A Slough House Podcast. Is dead, we know why Jackson whacked him and we have met Rivers spy daddy and had him whacked too, I can understand if Herron thinks he has served his purpose. Cartwright, having copied the contents of Hobden's USB drive before delivering it to Regent's Park, realises it contains no information and manipulates a rival, James 'Spider' Webb, into confirming the same. True, Ho and Standish managed to retroactively track the movements of Alan Black's alias and locate the van he had hired for the kidnapping. Since Ashley is as paranoid as any other spy, and clueless as well, shes baffled by the interactions around her in Slough House. River discovers the bomb left at the airfield and realizes the attack was a hoax, calling Taverner to have the Code September retracted. Also on the nit-picky line, Im not sure that the use of new character Reese Nesmith III really added a huge amount other than to give Lamb the chance to make some trademark un-PC comments about dwarfism. Fans will scour Bad Actors for news of River Cartwright, . He claimed he was kidnapped and tortured by Popov, who force-fed him brandy, but wasnt believed, and was fired. I would pine for it. However, they cant afford to ignore the assassination, on UK soil, of a Russian defector. Haunted office manager Catherine is seen attending AA meetings and is regularly taunted by Lamb about alcohol. He was a connection to the O. However the book description gives reason to be nervous saying that [t]he slow horses have been pushed further into the cold, Slough House wiped from Service recordsand fatal accidents keep happening. Herron loves to keep his readers off balance so I wont be surprised if not everyone makes it. Louisa Guy, perhaps, has most focus but this novel felt much more like a genuine ensemble cast - and benefited from that, too. It is difficult to elaborate more without any spoilers, but. To do so, however, shes had to strike up an alliance with ex-politician turned PR guru Peter Judd who has put together a group of patriotically minded billionaires willing to fund operations that the British state may balk at. Lamb meets with Taverner and discusses Katinsky's story, and convinces her to fund a fake ID and cover package for River, who he then meets and instructs to investigate the airfield, and its owner Duncan Tropper, further. Rebecca recounts that Min was attacked and run over by Pitor and Kyril, and finished off by Chernitsky before his death was staged. Read the book and then laugh at my incorrect guesses! River Cartwright, one such "slow horse," is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations. Thats how I interpret it. Slough House is the one you want to find out about River. Filming of the first season began on 30 November 2020, in England, and continued into February 2021, with Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas spotted on set in Westminster, London. The Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman is playing Lamb, Kristin Scott Thomas the steely apparatchik Diana Taverner, and Jack Lowden the disgraced young agent River Cartwright. However, Larry frees Ahmed and attacks Curly with an axe, but flees which enables an injured Curly to recapture Hassan. Hes also ruthlessly effective. but it also leaves me in a quandary as I don't want to say anything that will give even the slightest spoilers for the delights between these covers so I'm just going to say that if you're not a Herron fan, do yourself a favour and start this series from the beginning; and if you are, you'll need no urging from me to get your hands on this as soon as you possibly can. The Oxford Series and other Mick Herron novels, Barbican Station A Slough House Podcast. 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