Spook Street: Slough House Thriller 4

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Droll, fast-paced, and with a cast of crazy characters, you wouldn’t want to work at Slough House but you certainly want to read about it.” It turns out that crime writers like Italian, especially risotto. Mostly, though, the talk was of agents and editors. When Herron first drafted “Slow Horses,” he planned to blow up Slough House. (He kills off characters all the time: “It’s not a thriller if it’s not thrilling.”) But then he decided he might want to stay a little longer in that house and reimagined the ending. The book came out in 2010; a couple of years later, he finished a sequel, “Dead Lions.” This winter, it’s Season 2 of the Apple series. At the time, however, he couldn’t find a publisher in his own country. Herron] does it all with a darkly deadpan humor that is as scathingly funny as it is irreverent. There’s no let up, no let down, it’s one hell of a tale told masterfully.”

Over at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner is also running into difficulties. Accomplishing her goals for the Service might require a deal with the devil.Over at Slough House, the agents are excelling at their specialty – complicating an already difficult situation. You do realize,” Herron told the execs slowly, “that in the book I’m writing right now I kill him off?”

So it's Lamb they call to identify the body and hewill do whatever he thinks necessary, to protect an agent in peril . . Declan Burke is the editor of Trouble is Our Business: New Stories by Irish Crime Writers (New Island) Declan Burke The element of surprise is a constant in the novel, but not for one moment is it anything other than totally convincing. Equally so is the cynical portrayal of the Intelligence Services. Whilst they are always concerned with ensuring the safety of the country, they insist on doing this in such a way that blame will never be attached to them if things go wrong. If mistakes have been made in the past they must remain in the past. In addition, there is always the desire for career advancement, which requires an innate capacity for placing blame elsewhere.You get the picture. For my twelfth birthday he bought me le Carré’s collected works. I can still remember what he said about them.”

A superb thriller . . . Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today.”Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas (2022) - Includes all novellas in the Slough House series published as of 2022. When former spook Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope passing between hands in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed something important. When he relays those suspicions to a man who babysits retired spies, however, he sets off a chain of life-changing events. Given that the most recent novel came out in May 2022 and the TV series has already been renewed for a second series, it's very likely there will be more.