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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.
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.
Slough House is an administrative purgatory for MI5 service rejects who have seriously failed a task but not badly enough to get 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 who are slow at thinking and action.
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.
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