Herron, Mick.

Slow horses / Mick Herron. - London : John Murray, 2017. - 329 p. ; 20 cm - Slough house series . - Slough house .

First published in 2010.

Banished to Slow House from the ranks of achievers at Regent's Park for various crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal, Jackson Lamb's misfit crew of highly trained joes don't run ops, they push paper. But not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a 'slow horse'.
A boy is kidnapped and held hostage. His beheading is scheduled for love broadcast on the internet. And whatever the instructions of the Service, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quiet and watch ... Book cover.

9781473674189 pbk.

GBB005168 bnb


Intelligence service--Fiction.
Kidnapping--Fiction.

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