Real Tigers
The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 3)
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4.4 • 581 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.”
Ultimately, these books do become increasingly political. Anybody who’s interested in writing satire is going to have as a primary target the government of the day, and the government of the day has been the Tory party since I’ve been writing them. Peter Judd is a character I devised because I wanted to incorporate in one figure all the worst aspects of British politicians at the time. So he is very much establishment, he’s very much of a self-appointed, elite public schoolboy, who’s far more interested in his own career and his own personal advancements. He’s somebody who should not have been allowed into a position of power. And it seemed me at that time when I was writing it, and ever since, that the government has been full of people like that.”
Customer Reviews
Classic Herron
Once again Herron provides the characters, the intrigue, and the action, combined with poetic and funny observation, that we’ve come to expect and enjoy. Bravo!
Expected more
After reading the first two books of the series, and watching season three on apple TV, I just expected a little more. Good beginning and ending, but the middle lacked a little umph. Onto the next…
Great read.
Another great book in this series, the characters are brilliant and really enjoy Mick Herron’s writing style. Unputtadownable in my humble opinion.