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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... woman next to him was edging away, casting worried glances at him, at his fingers, which were thrumming a non-existent keyboard. He hadn't until that moment connected the music in his head with the movement of his hands. At the time, he ...
... woman next to him was edging away, casting worried glances at him, at his fingers, which were thrumming a non-existent keyboard. He hadn't until that moment connected the music in his head with the movement of his hands. At the time, he ...
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... woman should be there, unlikely to be vacuuming in the dark. And that flickering streetlamp: no doubt its innards had been tampered with, the better to insert some surveillance device. He waited. Of all the sounds in the wood, all the ...
... woman should be there, unlikely to be vacuuming in the dark. And that flickering streetlamp: no doubt its innards had been tampered with, the better to insert some surveillance device. He waited. Of all the sounds in the wood, all the ...
Page 31
... woman behind the counter was a chatty one; you could barely prise yourself loose with a crowbar—but lately, it occurred to him, she had been chatting less, listening more; coaxing out details it might have been wiser to preserve. He'd ...
... woman behind the counter was a chatty one; you could barely prise yourself loose with a crowbar—but lately, it occurred to him, she had been chatting less, listening more; coaxing out details it might have been wiser to preserve. He'd ...
Page 37
... woman, my mother. She decided before I was born that he wasn't part of her life any more. And that's one path she's never deviated from.” This being an unusual circumstance, Louisa surmised. Sundry details of their lives had been ...
... woman, my mother. She decided before I was born that he wasn't part of her life any more. And that's one path she's never deviated from.” This being an unusual circumstance, Louisa surmised. Sundry details of their lives had been ...
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... bear witness to that fact. And the Isobel Dunstable commanding such attention was a long cry from the young woman who'd dumped him on his grandparents' doorstep when he was seven, and taken off for S PO 0 K S T R E E T 4 1.
... bear witness to that fact. And the Isobel Dunstable commanding such attention was a long cry from the young woman who'd dumped him on his grandparents' doorstep when he was seven, and taken off for S PO 0 K S T R E E T 4 1.
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