The boss of Slough House the overweight irascible Jackson Lamb believes Bow has been murdered and begins an investigation. As ever damp washing was tonight’s motif.Īn old Cold War-era minor MI5 operative Dickie Bow is found dead on a bus outside Oxford. Unfortunately, that “small amount” was large enough that if she ever laid her hands on it, she’d have moved somewhere bigger instead. But many are keen to get back into the field, complete a mission successfully and hopefully revive their failed careers.Ī broadsheet’s Beautiful Homes column had lately informed her that a little imagination and a small amount of cash could transform even the tiniest apartment into a compact, space efficient dream-dwelling. There they are given boring clerical tasks such as counting paperclips in the hope they will give in their notice. So those that screw up, for example by leaving a top secret disk on a tube train, are shuffled off to Slough House where they are known as “slow horses”, a deliberate pathetic pun. The central theme of these books is that in modern Britain it is too difficult to sack incompetent spies as they probably would take the government to an employment tribunal. It is the second book in the River Cartwright series following on from Slow Horses.

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