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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... head him offif it looked like he was going to say anything. “Doing anything later?”he asked. “Yeah, no, what? Later ... head round.Tregorian kept splitting into separate syllables, and rearranging itself what was it, Cornish? She didn't ...
... head him offif it looked like he was going to say anything. “Doing anything later?”he asked. “Yeah, no, what? Later ... head round.Tregorian kept splitting into separate syllables, and rearranging itself what was it, Cornish? She didn't ...
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... head for dates. January 4th. The year, as ever, the current one. His house was in Kent; old house, big garden, not that he did as much of that since Rose had died. Winter provided an alibi; Can't wait to be back out there, my boy ...
... head for dates. January 4th. The year, as ever, the current one. His house was in Kent; old house, big garden, not that he did as much of that since Rose had died. Winter provided an alibi; Can't wait to be back out there, my boy ...
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... heads-up on a possible Lamb appearance: as a result, the pair were staring at their screens; a reasonable facsimile of work, except that Shirley was still wet. Marcus's monitor throbbed in front of him. Even after all this time in ...
... heads-up on a possible Lamb appearance: as a result, the pair were staring at their screens; a reasonable facsimile of work, except that Shirley was still wet. Marcus's monitor throbbed in front of him. Even after all this time in ...
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... heads: it's the rest of us too. Us poor working saps in debt to our eyeballs, a never-ending mortgage, and bills papering the walls; barely enough spare cash for a cup of coffee, but shouldering S PO 0 K S T R E E T 2 3.
... heads: it's the rest of us too. Us poor working saps in debt to our eyeballs, a never-ending mortgage, and bills papering the walls; barely enough spare cash for a cup of coffee, but shouldering S PO 0 K S T R E E T 2 3.
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... head. An old man's fancy—a memory rising to the surface, like a bubble from a frog. He lowered his foot into the second welly, chuckling. The boy ever learned he had these moments of inattention, he'd never hear the end of it. Besides ...
... head. An old man's fancy—a memory rising to the surface, like a bubble from a frog. He lowered his foot into the second welly, chuckling. The boy ever learned he had these moments of inattention, he'd never hear the end of it. Besides ...
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