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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.
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.
Jed Moody, a Slough House agent who was previously a globe trotting spy. Louisa Guy , a former field agent who was sent to work at Slough House after she took the fall for a failed operation. Catherine Standish , Jackson Lamb's assistant who previously served under deceased MI5 Director-General, Charles Partner.
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.
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 ...
The Coffee House is a Vietnamese coffeehouse chain, created in 2014. [1] It is based in Ho Chi Minh City. [4] As of March 2018, the chain has over 100 stores across Vietnam [5] that serve over 40,000 customers a day. [6] The CEO Nguyen Hai Ninh announced that the company plans to open as many as 700 outlets across Vietnam. [6] [7]
The National Assembly Building of Vietnam (Vietnamese: Tòa nhà Quốc hội Việt Nam), officially the National Assembly House (Nhà Quốc hội) [6] and also known as the New Ba Đình Hall (Hội trường Ba Đình mới), is a public building located on Ba Đình Square across from the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam ...