The finest new crime series this Millennium * Mail on Sunday * Herron is difficult to overpraise * Daily Telegraph * Jackson Lamb - the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher * Sunday Times *Īs a master of wit, satire, insight. Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series: *. 'The most enjoyable British spy novel in years.' Mail on Sunday 'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times
And unless they can prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public execution is going to echo round the world. So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action.
Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal. This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House. 'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is a terrific thing' Gary Oldman *Soon to be a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
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