The Slow Horses. Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away whats left of their failed careers. But when a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to behead him live on the internet River sees an opportunity to redeem himself.
Slow Horses concentrates on the doings of Slough House a dead end dumping ground for disgraced and flunked MI5 spooks and their arch washout the torpid Jackson Lamb a burnt out field operative who supervises from a gloomy garret of an office on the top floor. The first three books in the series are being re-published prior to the release of the fourth Spook Street which comes out in February. But when a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to behead him live on the internet River sees an opportunity to redeem himself.
When Jackson Lamb is asked to run an errand for Regents Park he sends River Cartwright on his first out-of-the-office job since he landed in Slough House eight months earlier.
Theyve screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. They paper push day after day. The Slow Horses are masters of getting involved where they dont belong. The slow horses are the spies relegated to Slough House for various crimes and misdemeanours such as drunkenness drug use and leaving classified material on the tube.