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Slough House is an administrative purgatory for MI5 service rejects who have seriously failed a task but have not been sacked. Those consigned there are known as "slow horses", a play on the name of the place itself, Slough House, and an expression for people past their prime who are slow in thinking and action.
Slough House is a series of spy novels by the British author Mick Herron.Herron began writing the first volume, Slow Horses, in 2008, and published it in 2010. The series follows River Cartwright and his colleagues, a group of humiliated MI5 agents, who have been relegated to paper pushing jobs.
Location of the fictional Slough House (Aldersgate Street, London) In 2003, Herron published his first novel, Down Cemetery Road. It was the first volume in a four-book series about Zoë Boehm, an Oxford private detective. [6] In 2010, he began the Slough House spy series with the first volume Slow Horses.
Jackson Lamb, an aging Cold War-era spy who manages the operations of Slough House. Diana Taverner, serves as second desk and Head of Operations at MI5. Sidonie “Sid” Baker, the most capable of the agents at Slough House, her reasons for being sent there are unknown. Jed Moody, a Slough House agent who was previously a globe trotting spy.
Sloughhouse or Slough House may refer to: Sloughhouse AVA, a wine region in California; Sloughhouse, California, an unincorporated community in Sacramento County; Slough House (novel series), a series of spy thriller novels by Mick Herron Slough House, a fictional office location in Slow Horses, a British TV spy thriller based on the series by ...
2009: In episode 8, Series 1 of The Legend of Dick and Dom, a CBBC show, the characters find themselves in modern-day Slough. 2010-2025: In the Slough House novels by Mick Herron and the adapted Apple+ TV series Slow Horses, Slough House is the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty. The name ...
Sloughhouse's Deer Creek bridge in 1860. Sloughhouse is an unincorporated community in Sacramento County, California, United States.Sloughhouse is located on California State Route 16, 17 miles (27 km) east-southeast of downtown Sacramento.
Signature of Dudley C. Carter on his carving of Chief Spokan Garry Haida House or Slough House (1935), Redmond, Washington, photo from June 2011 In 1979, at the age of eighty-eight, Carter was commissioned to carve three large cedars for the Clackamas Town Center shopping mall, located in the southeastern part of the Portland metropolitan area ...