Spook StreetWhat happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but don’t remember they’re secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good? These are the paranoid concerns of David Cartwright, a Cold War–era operative and one-time head of MI5 who is sliding into dementia, and questions his grandson, River, must figure out answers to now that the spy who raised him has started to forget to wear pants. But River, himself an agent at Slough House, MI5’s outpost for disgraced spies, has other things to worry about. A bomb has detonated in the middle of a busy shopping center and killed forty innocent civilians. The “slow horses” of Slough House must figure out who is behind this act of terror before the situation escalates. |
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... Slough House. Everyone here had problems, or what you now had to call “issues.” Moira supposed that was why she'd been assigned here, to provide overdue backbone. Dust everywhere, of course. The whole building felt neglected; seemed to ...
... Slough House. Everyone here had problems, or what you now had to call “issues.” Moira supposed that was why she'd been assigned here, to provide overdue backbone. Dust everywhere, of course. The whole building felt neglected; seemed to ...
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... Slough House. In the absence of any other champion, Moira gave a long-suffering sigh, and headed down to investigate. “How old would you say she was?” “Fifties, mid,” Louisa said. “So...” “Bout the same as Catherine,” River said. “Uh ...
... Slough House. In the absence of any other champion, Moira gave a long-suffering sigh, and headed down to investigate. “How old would you say she was?” “Fifties, mid,” Louisa said. “So...” “Bout the same as Catherine,” River said. “Uh ...
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... Slough House was a fingernail of the Service: a fair step from Regent's Park geographically, and on another planet in most other ways. Slough House was where you ended up when all the bright avenues were closed to you. It was where they ...
... Slough House was a fingernail of the Service: a fair step from Regent's Park geographically, and on another planet in most other ways. Slough House was where you ended up when all the bright avenues were closed to you. It was where they ...
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... Slough House.The slow horses. Treading on a young man's toes, that was; reminding him of the balls-up he'd made of things. Not that his own copybook was free of blot. If they'd had a Slough House in his day, who knew? He might have ...
... Slough House.The slow horses. Treading on a young man's toes, that was; reminding him of the balls-up he'd made of things. Not that his own copybook was free of blot. If they'd had a Slough House in his day, who knew? He might have ...
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... Slough House he found it hard to adjust to its routines; switch mind and body off, become an automaton, processing random information sets. Burnt-out vehicles, that was his spreadsheet: burnt-out cars and vans— hardly an unusual sight ...
... Slough House he found it hard to adjust to its routines; switch mind and body off, become an automaton, processing random information sets. Burnt-out vehicles, that was his spreadsheet: burnt-out cars and vans— hardly an unusual sight ...
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