Slow Horses

Resumen del libro

*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans**Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is a terrific thing' Gary OldmanSpooks are supposed to be stealthy . . .

But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House. This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal.

In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action. So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. And unless they can prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public execution is going to echo round the world.

'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times 'The most enjoyable British spy novel in years' Mail on Sunday'The new spy master' Evening Standard

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Mick Herronx{0026}lt;/B nació en Newcastle upon Tyne, estudió en el Balliol College y reside en Oxford. Autor de reconocido prestigio en el género negro (finalista de los afamados premios Macavity, Barry y Shamus), entre su amplia producción destaca la aclamada serie sobre Jackson Lamb y sus caballos lentos , de la que ya han aparecido ocho novelas, se han vendido más de un millón de ejemplares, se halla en curso de traducción a más de veinte idiomas y se ha estrenado en televisión con Gary Oldman y Kristin Scott Thomas como protagonistas y con gran éxito de críticas y audiencia. Con x{0026}lt;I Caballos lentosx{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2018), la primera entrega, fue finalista del Silver Dagger Award de la Crime Writers' Association, un logro que repitió con las siguientes, x{0026}lt;I Leones muertosx{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2020), x{0026}lt;I Tigres de verdadx{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2021), x{0026}lt;I La calle de los espíasx{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2022), ganador del Ian Fleming Steel Dagger al mejor x{0026}lt;I thriller x{0026}lt;/I del año, y x{0026}lt;I Las reglas de Londresx{0026}lt;/I (Salamandra, 2023).x{0026}lt;/P