Slow Horses

from alanteder

Intriguing start to a series on misfit spies. Very entertaining with some surprising twists. Just be prepared by knowing that it has a slow start with an extensive background introduction to the 'slow horses' of the title. As opposed to the modern-day often-used in medias res technique of startin...

from lostinalibrary

Slough House is where MI5 sticks their screw-ups, AKA slow horses, hoping they'll just go away. So, when a Pakistani teen is kidnapped by a right-wing group which then threatens to cut off his head on the internet, Slough House doesn't expect they'll be part of any rescue mission. However, when t...

from LisCarey

River Cartwright was a rising young star in the British secret service, until suddenly he wasn't. Now he sits at Slough House, one of the "slow horses," transcribing cell phone conversations and hoping for a real assignment. And then a young man is kidnapped by a shadowy group who claim they'll ...

from yhgail

I liked it, for all its problems. The biggest problem for me is that it was not written to be listened to. After starting over twice from about 1/3 way through, I broke down and bought the kindle version, and started once again. Reading the kindle version is a big help toward keeping the many cha...

from rosalita

River Cartwright works for MI-5, the British intelligence service. When a training exercise is botched, he's relegated to the espionage minor leagues - Slough House, where various agents who have fallen out of favor with "Five" wash up. They are given extremely tedious and uninteresting tasks to ...