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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... it's upbeat. Cheerful, even. As if something other than his own sense of superiority is warming Roddy Ho's cockles ... its valve, spurting water onto the carpet. Ho doesn't notice, and nor does he register the following gurgle from deep ...
... it's upbeat. Cheerful, even. As if something other than his own sense of superiority is warming Roddy Ho's cockles ... its valve, spurting water onto the carpet. Ho doesn't notice, and nor does he register the following gurgle from deep ...
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... its screensaver: a black background around which an orange ball careened, bumping against its borders, never getting ... it's so popular with the vampires.” The vampires being those whose job it was to draw blood from Stones. Shirley ...
... its screensaver: a black background around which an orange ball careened, bumping against its borders, never getting ... it's so popular with the vampires.” The vampires being those whose job it was to draw blood from Stones. Shirley ...
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... its natural brown, a little darker during these winter months. It would fade up once the spring arrived, if the spring brought sunshine; and if it didn't, hell, she could always cheat, and squeeze a little sunlight from a bottle. Right ...
... its natural brown, a little darker during these winter months. It would fade up once the spring arrived, if the spring brought sunshine; and if it didn't, hell, she could always cheat, and squeeze a little sunlight from a bottle. Right ...
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... It's surprising what some people leave lying around.” “Because it could easily turn out to be a chick with a dick or ... its routines; switch mind and body off, become an automaton, processing random information sets. Burnt-out vehicles ...
... It's surprising what some people leave lying around.” “Because it could easily turn out to be a chick with a dick or ... its routines; switch mind and body off, become an automaton, processing random information sets. Burnt-out vehicles ...
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... It's not just the Jihadi Johns out there in the scrublands, living off camel meat and sleeping in holes but with a million-dollar price tag on their heads: it's the rest of us too. Us poor working saps in debt to our eyeballs, a never ...
... It's not just the Jihadi Johns out there in the scrublands, living off camel meat and sleeping in holes but with a million-dollar price tag on their heads: it's the rest of us too. Us poor working saps in debt to our eyeballs, a never ...
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