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Laddar... Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House) (urspr publ 2010; utgåvan 2020)av Mick Herron (Författare)
VerksinformationSlow Horses av Mick Herron (2010)
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Best Spy Fiction (17) Books Read in 2024 (12) Books Read in 2023 (207) » 5 till Books Read in 2021 (443) Books Read in 2017 (566) Books We Love to Reread (446) Movies/Shows (324) Animals in the Title (292) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. ![]() ![]() Interesting series about a group of no-hopers and discards in the British Secret Service. Ostracised and assigned with non-significant work, the hope is that they will resign on their own accord. Nonetheless, many stayed on hoping to make it back to the mainstream. Some have been there for years, while others are new arrivals like River Cartright. They don't get along, or rather they have never tried to get along, and you have a boss whom everyone dislikes. But when something happens, they stir themselves up (not all of them though), and the boss suddenly shows his leadership and wit. There is even some teamwork. What not to like about the book? Bitty disjointed switching between several unlikeable characters from start to finish, but overall eventually an element of tension creeps in. Slow, but differently so, compared to classics like Le Carre. There isn't really a hero as such - except perhaps the boy Hassan, who is mostly an innocent victim. Rivers is the first name encountered and as such takes on the readers empathy. Slough House (not in Slough, but in london) is an outpost of MI5, and the team who are sent there are those the Service can't sack directly, but who have blotted their copybook so badly that they're not trusted with anything important. Instead they're expected to quietly resign, but some through shear bloody mindedness and perversity, turn up to work every day instead. The house is run by Lamb, unpleasant but still capable. Even MI5 suffers from budget restraint, and so very occasionally the Slow Horses are borrowed by MI5 proper for errands. One such is the intermittent surveillance of a former journalist, now turned right wing hack. Even the monotony of this is better than counting paperclips, but everything is forgotten when some Right Wing extremists post a live video threatening to kill a young Muslim that they've captured. Some in Sough House have their suspicions about exactly why they're being sent on errands just now, but it's mostly interspersed by selfishness and petty jealosy. Really slow, but ends well, and just about worth persevering with - staggered it got made into a TV series though! I will probably read the 2nd and see if they improve at all. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up a case in any number of ways-by leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a surveillance. River Cartwright, one such "slow horse," is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations.When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself.Is the victim who he first appears to be? And what's the kidnappers' connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone has his own agenda. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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