Here in Slough House,the intelligence service's home for inept spies,it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.
Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles performed,and he's always been Jackson Lamb's Number Two. So when Lamb has a photograph that needs doctoring,it's Ho he entrusts with the task. Christmas is a time for memories,but Lamb doesn't do memories - or so he says. But what is it about the photo that makes him want to alter it How would the slow horses cope if Roddy Ho didn't exist And most importantly of all,are the team having Christmas drinks,and if so,where
Standing by the Wall offers a glimpse into the kind of seasonal merriment you might expect at Slough House,where the boss generally marks the festive season with an increase in hostilities. But then,this is the secret service,not Secret Santa. And the slow horses aren't here to enjoy themselves.
Roddy Roddy Roddy Ho Ho Ho!
Publisher: John Murray PressISBN: 9781399807081Number of pages: 64Weight: 46 gDimensions: 158 x 110 x 10 mm
Mick Herron
Kicking off with 2010's Slow Horses,Mick Herron's Slough House series has lit a match under the British spy genre. With its world-wary coterie of misfits and starring the cunning Jackson Lamb,Herron is now at the front rank of espionage fiction and considered by many to be the true spiritual successor to Len Deighton.
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