Mick Heron's Slow Horses
I've read two of the books in this British spy thriller series. Here is my review of the first one. Slow Horses Mick Herron opens this book with a raid to stop a suicide bomber at Kings Cross. River Cartwright (his mother was briefly a hippie)., the grandson of an MI5 veteran who rose in the ranks, messes up when he is tricked by Spider Webb an opportunistic colleague, angling for management without having to risk his life as a real spy. Luckily, it was only a training exercise. But Cartwright’s error earns him a transfer to Slough House, a seedy building housing a crew of misfits presided over by the overweight and over the hill Jackson Lamb. Lamb’s nemesis is Diana Taverner who hold sway at the Second Desk IN Regent’s Park. She makes sure that the Slough House denizens are relegated to filing and pointless research. But she has also hatched a bizarre plot to place Alan Black as an agent provocateur in Albion, an English nationalist group. Black prods his dim