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2000s: Wait till you realise the significance of the title….
Slow Horses
What you need to know before your trail
You don’t stop being a spook just because you’re no longer in the game.
Banished to Slough House from the ranks of achievers at Regent’s Park for various crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal, Jackson Lamb’s misfit crew of highly trained joes don’t run ops, they push paper.
But not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a ‘slow horse’.
A boy is kidnapped and held hostage. His beheading is scheduled for live broadcast on the net.
And whatever the instructions of the Service, the slow horses aren’t going to just sit quiet and watch . . .
Locations
Reset- England - London
- A: Slough House, Aldersgate Street
- B: The Regent's Park
- C: MI5
- D: MI6 Building
Travel Guide
Dodgy London
This is the London where the spooks work in the shadows and by the early morning, the city is already damp, dark and foggy.
Slough House
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.
“Slough House, its flaky paintwork, its flakier denizens….”
Regent’s Park
This is an alternative Security Service – if you’re exiled from Regent’s park, the Services heart and moral high ground, then you’re sent to Slough House. That’s not its real name, it hasn’t got one. Those who work here are called Slow Horses, Slough House if you say it slowly enough. A wordplay based on a joke whose origins were almost forgotten.
Streetview Maps
A) Slough House
B) Mi5
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Slow Horses
Author/Guide:Mick Herron Destination: London Departure Time: 2000s
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