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So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal.

This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up.

But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House. 'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is a terrific thing' Gary Oldman *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*

Slow Horses by Mick Herron