Tag Archives: Carol Atherton

It’s rare for me to binge-read multiple books from a series close together, but having devoured the Apple TV series Slow Horses earlier this year, I gulped down the first four books of the Slough House series by Mick Herron which follows Jackson Lamb and his team of washed-up MI5 spies who have been exiled to desk jobs in Slough House near Barbican underground station in London. They usually end up there in professional disgrace for misdemeanours such as leaving confidential documents on a train (Min Harper) or for personal reasons like addiction issues (Marcus Longridge and Catherine Standish) or simply for repulsive personalities (Roderick Ho). Too difficult to sack for gross misconduct, the incompetent “slow horses” take on the menial tasks shuffling papers and sorting through bins while the powers that be at the main HQ at Regent’s Park hope they will eventually choose to resign.
Continue reading →