“Always, in railway stations, there was this sense of pent-up movement. Excellent stuff for a 1st volume in a series. After the 1st half, I was treated with a healthy amount of crossings, double-crossings, twists and turns at every step. I thought the novel had the perfect balance of good writing, background information, well rounded characters, action, humour and spying. Might those two events be connected? Will Slough House agents of disaster finally do something right? At the same time, a young Pakistani boy is kidnapped and threatened with public decapitation. Dissatisfied with the way his career has slumped, he tries to find out more about the reasons he was given the job and gets himself and his colleagues in a nice mess.
Bitter, he receives a mundane and foul errand to help the Main office, aka to search the trash of a failed reporter. River Cartwright, might or might not have made a small mistake which caused a major disruption in a train station during a promotion exercise. Full of self-pity and anger, nobody likes any of their other colleagues and spend their office hours hating every minute of their dull existence. The once-great Jackson Lamb shepherds all of them in a division nicknamed The Slough House. On basic terms, Slow Horses is a novel packed with humour and intrigue about a bunch of MI5 agents who all f**ed-up one way or another. I’ve had this novel on my Kindle for a while but I only decided to finally read it when I heard about the TV series. Oops, I forgot to review this one but I am trying to fix my mistake now.
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