Real Tigers
The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 3)
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4.4 • 200 Ratings
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Publisher Description
*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*
'The finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years' Metro
'Masterful' Daily Mail
'A pulsating spy thriller' Daily Express
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Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies, former high-fliers now dubbed the 'slow horses'. Catherine Standish, one of their number, worked in Regent's Park long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back, and she's known Jackson Lamb long enough to have learned that old sins cast long shadows. And she also knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks, even recovering drunks whose careers have crashed and burned.
What she doesn't know is why anyone would target her.
So whoever's holding her hostage, it can't be personal. It must be about Slough House. Most likely, it's about Jackson Lamb. And say what you like about Lamb, he'll never leave a joe in the lurch.
He might even be someone you could trust with your life.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Mick Herron’s Inside Story: I wrote this book after having won the Gold Dagger [in 2013] for Dead Lions and it gave me a huge amount of confidence. This is where I really started having fun and let myself off the leash a bit. There are even elements of [James] Bond in it: the underground complex, chases and people shooting at each other—it was all very fun to do.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The disgraced spies at MI5's Slough House must try to save one of their own in CWA Gold Dagger Award winner Herron's outstanding third thriller featuring uncouth Jackson Lamb and crew (after 2013's Dead Lions). When one of these "slow horses," Catherine Standish, doesn't show up for work, her colleagues don't initially worry until they're contacted by kidnappers who say that they'll only guarantee Standish's return in exchange for information stored on a secret government computer, which happens to be in MI5's headquarters in London's Regent's Park. River Cartwright, the hero of 2010's Slow Horses, tries to infiltrate the main office, not an easy task, especially since the agency ripples with internal strife as the new home secretary, Peter Judd, butts heads with the Intelligence Service chief, Dame Ingrid Tearney. Soon the lines between spies, slow horses, and private mercenaries blur dangerously. Herron expertly juggles multiple plot lines and fully formed characters, injecting everything with a jolt of black humor.
Customer Reviews
Real Tigers
Another totally enjoyable & engaging story of the Slow Horses. Well written, a good story with well developed characters.
Really worth taking the time
This book demands that you take time to read it, and rewards you for the patience. Well written with many angles and vectors it all comes together well in the end.
Love these books
These books just get better and better. Can not wait for number 4!