Slow Horses

Where do you put a washed up spy? London’s MI5 organization sends disgraced agents (the so-called ‘Slow Horses’) to Slough House to finish their failed careers. River Cartwright, one of the disgraced agents, finds an opportunity to get his career back on track when a young man is kidnapped and his captors threaten to broadcast the beheading live on the internet. Filled with an array of remarkable characters, Slow Horses is a satirical page turner that stylishly skewers bureaucrats, politics and the spy game.