Mick Herron was born in Newcastle and has a degree in English from Balliol College, Oxford. Will Devon Welles get a promotion or will we see a new character take the job? '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. Slough House isnt the strongest novel of the series that remains Joe Country, a high-watermark which may never be matched but it is most definitely worth your time and money. (LogOut/ Hes ineffectual, arrogant and completely unaware of his failings. I was very disappointed in the ending of this novel. He alleges when stationed in East Berlin he overheard Popov demanding the cicada program remain funded after the fall of the Soviet Union. With a new populist movement taking a grip on Londons streets, and the old order ensuring that everythings for sale to the highest bider, the worlds an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. Sid in the books remains 'dead' for several books, and returns in Slough House, where it emerges that she suffered permanent brain damage and has been living in a safe house all along. 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. Warning Spoilers ahead for all books in the series! 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. Perpetually rueful Min left a top-secret dossier on the train. Slough House is the one you want to find out about River. Believing he was targeted also, Lamb investigates Rebecca, the driver, and discovers she has connections to Russia and previously lived in Vladivostok. 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. For there has been foreign agents spreading havoc, not least poisoning civilians, in a way that actually happened. Since Dead Lions, Herron has setup an every other book dynamic of killing off slow horses. He was a connection to the O. (LogOut/ Well, that would be another book spoiler that could affect future seasons, so LOOK AWAY NOW. 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. "[16] On the review aggregator Metacritic, the season has a weighted average score of 78 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Warning Spoilers ahead for all books in the series! [10] In July 2021, filming continued in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Lamb informs her there is a bomb in the car he returned, which allows Cartwright to sneak in whilst Duffy's security team investigates. We left her severely injured and MIA until a shocking phone call at the end of Spook . 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. Well that was an experience: high-speed foot chases, unexpected decapitations, incompetent spies and a lot of middle-aged flatulence. After locating the photo and evading security, he and Lamb threaten to reveal Taverner's operation to the Director-General and the press. On that subject. He deduces Katinsky is the spymaster behind the Cicada program (passing himself off as a junior bureaucrat when defecting to avoid suspicion) and was the handler of a traitor in the service. However, when two Britons came across the perfume bottle in which the nerve agent had been carried, one of them died. These stories about a disparate group of underdogs coming together to beat the odds (and beat The Man) have struck a chord with readers. 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. Chernitsky ambushes Ho on the train and escapes after an altercation with Dander. 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. Still with much unfinished business and exiled to the hinterlands of Slough House, the very well-connected River Cartwright (Jack Lowden) received some seasoned advice from his Jonathan Pryce. While she obsesses on punishing Lamb, the team is actually in crisis mode. Mick Herron is not kind to his characters. The subject matter allows for some sophisticated satire and some notable current politicians are lampooned pseudonymously. Not crucial questions but worth thinking about . He was nobodys idea of an avenging knight. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); 2021 Crime Fiction Lover. [11] It was originally intended to film earlier in 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. . Joy is unbridled when each new book is announced. Slovenly, rude, and apparently drunk most of the time. Which he is, but a thoroughly relatable one. Sid Baker - One of the most shocking reveals in Slow Horses was the fate of Sid Baker who a fellow agent sent to spy on Slough House but who River slowly got to know throughout the course of the book. 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. And true, Min and Louisa managed to follow that van Until they ran out of petrol because Min was hungry and thinking about sex instead of filling up the tank. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Driving out of London, Zeppo and Larry reveal that they never intended to go through with killing Ahmed, and entertain the idea of releasing him, becoming increasingly concerned with Curly's erratic behaviour and rhetoric. Still, I am broken-hearted and may not be able to finish Bad Actors. River goes undercover in France to try to find the source while the other slow horses try to work the angle from London. 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. Roddy Ho, Shirley Dander and Lech Wicinski round out the team. Thanks to adept storytelling, readers are aware before Lamb (or is that impossible?) He can handle Lambs temperament but he isnt who I see when I read the books. Where to start with Roddy? 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. 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. Spook secrets were dangerous to friends and foes alike, and the old man had made plenty of both down the years. He rules his group with invective, coarseness and vituperation yet is protective as a mother hen when they are threatened. By the time River arrives at Tunbridge Wells by plane with Kelly Tropper, David has already ambushed and killed Chernitsky with a shotgun. Books with River Cartwright Meanwhile, Claude Whelan, current First Desk, is caught between a weak PM and a populist MP flushed from a successful Brexit referendum. 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 . Zo Boehm. But I think hes got too old and too thin. I thought the entire cast was near perfect, and cant wait for the next season. The only clue he finds is an undelivered text Cicadas. Things get pretty close, and Curly is stopped right in the nick of time before he murders the young student. . Slough House has been wiped from Service records, and fatal accidents keep happening. A befuddled Roddy Hos thoughts on The Parks plumbing is worth the price of admission alone. Im skeptical. Herron does leave open the potential of a rescue (and I am really anxious to get the next book so that I can see how it plays out) but on past form, I cant say that Im hopeful. 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. At the head of this seeming hodgepodge of debris stands the Falstaffian Jackson Lamb. Blonde, handsome, smart, passionate, and the grandson of an MI5 legend (played by Jonathan Pryce), he is obviously meant to be the . "The Dogs" arrive, but the group prevent them from killing the detained Curly. If you aren't reading the Slough House spy novels yet, what are you waiting for? 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). Slow Horses is available to watch on Apple TV+. Slough House is the seventh book in the brilliantly unique Slow Horses British spy thriller series - soon to be seen on TV in a star-studded adaptation. My carefully organized reading list just took a direct hit. History Season 1 At an airport, River Cartwright gets ready to board his flight while waiting for someone. 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. 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. Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb? Follow I Read, Therefore I Blog on WordPress.com. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 95% approval rating with an average rating of 7.7/10, based on 55 critic reviews. River calls in a Code September, prompting Taverner to evacuate Judd from his speech at The Royal Exchange and the immediate area around The Glasshouse. I am not sure I can read any more. Haunted office manager Catherine is seen attending AA meetings and is regularly taunted by Lamb about alcohol. DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK. Curly prepares to kill Hassan outside what he believes is a Norman castle, which Ahmed points out is actually a folly. So it seems clear that she got exiled to Slough House for a drunken mistake. Jack Lowden as River Cartwright, an up-and-coming MI5 agent shunted aside to Slough House after a very public training exercise mistake. For River Cartwright, however, all of this plays second fiddle to the fact that not only is Sidonie 'Sid' Baker still alive, but she's turned up at his dead grandfather's house in Kent because she needs his help. Judd booted Hobden to the curb and Taverner's chief dog Nick Duffy literally pushed him over it into the path of oncoming traffic. Any trail his dead grandfather had left, no one was going to follow but him. Taverner calls Standish several times to flip her allegiance, alleging that Lamb was involved with Charles Partner's death, but she remains loyal to him when he comes to extract her. But hes also brilliant, and much sharper, it turns out, than Diana Taverner herself. Red Rose ending explained What is Red Rose? There are hysterical episodes, ridiculous circumstances hard to accept and poignant moments for good measure. Slough House's cyber expert Roddy Ho discovers he cannot hack Hobden's laptop as it is air gapped, furthering everybody's suspicions. Warning - Spoilers ahead for all books in the series! It is also revealed that Standish narrowly escaped a treason charge through her links with Partner and his death. Herron IS brutal to his characters and their fans. Unlike the rest of the team, the reason for Lambs demotion to Slough House is never revealed. i read the first 2 books then saw the series then dove back inseeing it enhances if have already read some of the books- how you imagine the environment will change once you see it and LAMB, but no matter. He could see one of either breed breaking a lock, finessing a window; could see them working round the study, looking for clues. And given that the devil in question is arch-manipulator Peter Judd, she could be about to lose control of everything shes fought for. I earn commission on any purchases made through these links. Lamb suggests that Krymov lied about Pashkin being Nevskys representative, with the younger Russian likely being his competitor. Because I already know that lurking inside is an intricate plot wrapped around plenty of wit & humour. 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. The way Herron skewers Boris Johnson through Judd (especially through his speeches) is just beautifully done but he also does well at showing the artifice and the naked desire for power, whatever it takes. [3] Each season has been based on an individual book in the Slough House series. 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. 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. The gun threat is a joke, and Piotr invites Min to drink vodka with him and Kyril. He claimed he was kidnapped and tortured by Popov, who force-fed him brandy, but wasnt believed, and was fired. She is one of the most competent agents and appears in every book. 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. This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 13:55. This is yet another winning book from the series featuring the "slow horses" of Britain's intelligence world. So, what connects the oligarch with an old rumour of Russian sleeper agents? At the same time Ho has hacked into the Parks computer system and discovered that all traces of Slough House have been expunged from the records. 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. Thanks for the review. yes reading in order is key and just stack them up next to your bed and dont expect to move for 10 days. Alongside that are running gags, observational humour and the vulgar insults Jackson Lamb regularly spits at his team. Top 9 Burning Questions going in to Slough House, The Oxford Series and other Mick Herron novels, Barbican Station A Slough House Podcast. He is assigned by his superior Jackson Lamb to carry out surveillance on Robert Hobden, a journalist associated with far-right politicians Peter Judd MP and Roger Simmonds. River discovers the bomb left at the airfield and realizes the attack was a hoax, calling Taverner to have the Code September retracted. This one seemed like the best so far, but maybe it was the wait for it to come out, or just that I'm getting to know the characters better. How is River handling patricide? 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. So much of the story is the thoughts of the characters and I wonder how that will be conveyed. For me the perfect Jackson Lamb would be Timothy Spall. Although River hated him, I would still imagine him being dead might be something to work through psychologically. If that was happening, River needed to stop it. to Catherine Standish for safekeeping while he follows a lead to France to discover the source behind the attacks. River Cartwright, the protagonist of the novel, was going places. Eventually Lamb reveals that he's guilt-stricken because he gave Partner the gun that he used to shoot himself. You can buySLOUGH HOUSE by Mick Herron fromAmazon UK,WaterstonesorBookshop.org UK. Theyve never needed to kill us, said Lamb. Mick Herron. I have waited patiently for this seventh book in the series to be released and, yes, I did zip right through it because I didn't dare put it down. 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. Get help and learn more about the design. It also lays the ground for the events of Joe Country, and at the same time introduces a series villain, ex-CIA operative Frank Harkness. I agree. David dismisses River's theory that Bough's death was the work of the FSB or related to the conspiracy, but seems generally unsettled and warns River to be careful. Cartwright is able to rescue Roddy Ho before he can be taken into custody, but Min and Louisa are unable to stop their colleague Struan from being taken from his home by operatives. Dead Lions: When River Cartwright screwed up, he was sent to the Slough House. It is revealed that Moe (real name Alan Black) was Taverner's mole, but was found out and murdered by Curly, who then fled with Zeppo, Larry and Hassan. . Desperate Measures reaches nailbiting conclusion. 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. (Had to listen 4-5 times to audiobook last chapters of novel previous to this one. He tried to leverage his former acquaintance with Judd into calling off the kidnapping because Judd, it turns out, has a secret, extremist past and connections to the Sons of Albion's financial backer. 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. Lamb discovers Katinskys involvement as a triple agent; he agreed to assist the Russians and distract Lamb in exchange for facing no repercussions for his defection decades earlier. The Salisbury Novichok poisonings, Russian secret service interference on British soil, has not gone down well in political or intelligence circles, so much so that First Desk arch-manipulator Diana Taverner loses touch with her better instincts as she seeks revenge, making a deal with the devil that results in the Kazan episode. 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. Lamb really is an appalling character and I can easily understand those who don't like him but he is bloody funny too! Here, Herron introduces a new slow horse, Ashley Khan, and further develops his subplot of Russian interference in the British establishment.Buy now on Amazon. River speaks with his grandfather about Bough's death. 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. . But the trail leads straight back to the Park itself, with Diana Taverner as chief suspect. Both are excellent books and reviewed on our site. Theyre looking to pick off the slow horses one by one.Buy now on Amazon, Bad Actors takes a look at Brexit and the government advisor who engineered it. I won't go into the storyline since that can be found elsewhere. This, like Real Tigers, is one of the more action-packed adventures in the series, and one where several earlier plot lines are resolved to move the bigger story forwards. Taverner confronts Judd at his home, revealing that calls he made to his far-right contacts after Hobden visited resulted in the mission being compromised and Black's death. All Rights Reserved. However, during a scouting mission, when the two are stalking a right-wing journalist called Robert Hobden, Sid is shot by an unseen intruder. Meanwhile, River comes closer to answering his most burning question: who engineered his transfer to Slough House?Buy now on Amazon, Without Lambs knowledge, Louisa Guy and Min Harper are seconded by The Park on a baby sitting job. No wonder Jackson Lambs crew are feeling paranoid. Pretty much everything extreme one can imagine happens, and it is a wild ride start to finish. (He returns in Slough House, books fans.). (SPOILER) I was very sorry at the departure of two in Joe Country, though one seemed to me less of a loss. River Cartwright is positioned as Lamb's spiritual opposite. [2] In June 2022, the series was renewed for third and fourth seasons. At base, Louisa Guy reports that she was tailed by an MI6 spy from Regents Park, the centre of MI6 operations and the hallowed turf to which all slow horses want to return. Ho notifies River that Chernitsky's destination is Tunbridge Wells, where his grandfather lives. Your email address will not be published. Cant think of any current heavy actors. And in the end, when offered the carrot of a return to Regent's Park, he betrayed Jackson Lamb by pretending he'd seen him talking to Alan Black before the kidnapping. Cartwright, David - Known as the power behind the throne in his time at MI5 in the 70's and 80's. Now known as the "OB", Old Bastard. Skripal and his daughter were badly poisoned, but eventually recovered. Herron uses the plot to make some biting comments about the use of private money in security operations and the importance of standing up to bullies. The Oxford Series and other Mick Herron novels, Barbican Station A Slough House Podcast. Slough House is Mick Herrons seventh novel about his team of unloved, incompetent though often marvellously effective MI6 spies. You & Me ending What happens to Ben and Emma? Jackson Lamb investigates, finding Bough's hidden phone under the seat with the message cicada, and gets the team to look deeper. He confronts her, and she confesses she was paid off. All in all and nitpicks aside, I thought this was a great read in a series where theres been no let up in quality and I genuinely cannot wait to see what Herron does next with these characters. He talks to a team which guides him, telling him to look for an Asian male. 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. Taverner meets with Lamb and reveals Ahmed is the nephew of the second in command of Pakistani Military Intelligence. He now lives in Oxford and works in London. The only slight nagging doubt is whether it will maintain the sky high quality standards. Danders character arc, for example, can only really be seen through the prism of her developing friendship with Longridge. The Russians cut the session when a friend visits, and afterwards Min is killed when supposedly struck accidentally by a car as he is cycling home drunk. One of them has been used to commit a terrorist atrocity in a London shopping centre. Before we discuss the books in more detail, lets have a look at some of the main characters. All we know about her on the show is that she's lonely and misses being part of a team. The 7th in Mick Herrons SLOUGH HOUSE SERIES is another fast-paced, action packed spy thriller that adds biting satire to the temperature of the nation. His bad habits belie a still keen, devious mind and his abilities as an experienced intelligence officer. The story, in the early days of, This week sees the release of Trouble, the third book in the Hella Mauzer series by Katja Ivar. Slow Horses, based on the first of Mick Herron's Slough House novels, follows the fortunes of a bunch of Security Service exiles under Gary Oldman's grotesquely seedy, unsupportive leader Jackson Lamb, as they attempt to untangle an ongoing act of domestic terrorism. I'm totally invested in the world of the slow horses of Slough House since starting the series in 2017. Standish beats Krymov in a game of chess, and he reveals it was Katinsky, not Pashkin he met with to set up the Webb meeting. River is tempted to reveal that it's really very obviously because he's "an insufferable prick". River Cartwright Apple River was there ostensibly because he messed up a training exercise at Stansted Airport that killed 149 hypothetical people. Herrons plot is packed with twists and delightfully sardonic conversations, and the books only major flaw is that at some point it ends and one must resume normal life.. love this series- absolutely brilliant. Will we ever see WW Henderson return to his Aldergate building? What didn't become clear till later was that Webb had misled Cartwright on Di Taverner's instructions in order to discredit him, because River had previously tailed Taverner on his own initiative and seen her talking with Black. Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge are the odd couple, though theyre not even a couple. Such events, on home turf, require a response and Taverner is keen enough to make that happen to allow Judds involvement. Slough House is his reward for taking care of Charles Partner for MI5. 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