Joe Country (Slough House)
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3.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
THE SIXTH BOOK IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES BEHIND SLOW HORSES, AN APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.
“Suspense, spycraft, dry wit and vulgar humor are all well-deployed in this satisfying work by Mr. Herron, whose style can accommodate everything from a tough action scene to a lyrical elegy.”—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him an outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.
Meanwhile, in Regent’s Park, Diana Taverner’s tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she’s going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil …
And with winter taking its grip, Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can’t ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends the slow horses out to even the score.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
As winter closes in on Slough House, its misfit spies find themselves chasing ghosts and heading into danger. The funeral of a legendary spy draws old enemies into the open, stirring memories best left buried. A grieving Louisa Guy gets pulled into a compelling missing-person search, River Cartwright contends with family shadows, Catherine Standish fights old temptations, and new recruit Lech Wicinski digs at the enthralling mystery that destroyed his career. But things really kick into high gear when the man responsible for killing a slow horse resurfaces, prompting Jackson Lamb to rally his battered team for one more pursuit. Mick Herron ratchets up tension with icy precision, blending wry humour with grief and loss. The slow horses now carry real pathos, even as Lamb remains gleefully foul. Narrator Gerard Doyle’s seasoned delivery amplifies both the absurd and the tragic. Bleak, biting, and unexpectedly moving, Joe Country shows Herron’s spies at their most human.
