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Loading... Real Tigers: Slough House Thriller 3 (original 2016; edition 2022)by Mick Herron (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I am fast becoming a Slough House junkie. This series is excellent, and bright as a new penny. The characters are unforgettable. The dialogue is crisp and witty, and you have to be quick on your feet to keep up with lumbering, acid-witted Jackson Lamb. In this book Lamb loses one of his Slough House agents, and the rest of the team find out before he does and set off to find the missing employee. Each of the four have their own demans to deal with, and that is why they are part of the Slow Horse team, but each of them have one or two amazing spy craft skills, and if they work together, they can do amazing things. Lamb finally clues in to what happens, and then look out. For as lazy and alovently as he looks, his mind is as sharp as tack. He is continually underestimated by his superiors, Ib their best day, they cannot hope to catch up with Jackson Lamb and the workings of his brilliant mind. I highly recommend this series, and I cannot wait to read more. ( ) Mick Herron has a most engaging use of language to move the story along. The characters each embody a sense of ennui that is characteristic of all the Slow Horses. However they collectively rise above it in meeting the challenge posed by their adversaries. And the humor, sublime but often generates laugh out loud chuckles. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:When one of their own is kidnapped, the washed-up MI5 operatives of Slough House??the Slow Horses, as they're known??outwit rogue agents at the very highest levels of British Intelligence, and even to Downing Street itself. London: Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they??ve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The ??Slow Horses,? as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all want back in on the action. When one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom, the agents of Slough House must defeat the odds, overturning all expectations of their competence, to breach the top-notch security of MI5??s intelligence headquarters, Regent??s Park, and steal valuable intel in exchange for their comrade??s safety. The kidnapping is only the tip of the iceberg, however??the agents uncover a larger web of intrigue that involves not only a group of private mercenaries but the highest authorities in the Secret Service. After years spent as the lowest on the totem pole, the Slow Horses suddenly find themselves caught in the midst of a conspiracy that threatens not only the future of Sloug No library descriptions found. |
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