I suspect the three year wait for book two was due to Herron waiting to find a plot which was worthy of the world he had created. Whether she is gay or not, this could be an intriguing backplot to be explored, although unlike most thrillers, Herron does not typically dwell upon romantic relations between the characters, and refers to them only when it develops the plot and themselves more. Why is she with the other no hopers? She stood up for herself against her patriarchal seniors, and revealed her sexuality, which prevented her from being kicked out as it would have looked bad for Regent’s Park. I hope that they receive more time in the third, ‘Real Tigers’, in particular, Shirley.
Both settle into Slough House, both unhappily and brilliantly, exactly how it is meant to be. I decided, very soon after completing the first, to find out whether its sequel was just as good.įollowing the dramatic exits in the original, there were now two new slow horses: Marcus Longridge, and Shirley Dander. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.ĭickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.The first novel in the Slough House series, ‘Slow Horses’, was the best book I have read in ages.
On Dickie's phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service's back-yard. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. This is the second novel of the Slough House seriesįrom the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus.
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