Slow Horses

by Mick Herron · 1705

When River Cartwright’s reckless ambition lands him in the drab back‑room of Slough House, he joins the “slow horses”—a ragtag team of MI5 agents whose careers have been sidelined by spectacular blunders, political betrayals, or personal demons. Their daily grind of transcribing phone taps and nursing old wounds seems endless—until a young man is kidnapped and his captors threaten to stream his beheading live. Seeing a chance at redemption, River and his fellow outcasts must set aside their grudges and piece together a tangled web of conspiracies that reaches far beyond the victim’s identity. In a world where every misstep is a potential death sentence, the slow horses discover that the only way back into the game is to outwit the very forces that dumped them there.