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2018 Barry Award for Best Thriller (nominee)
2018 British Book Award Crime and Thriller Book of the Year (shortlist)
2018 CrimeFest: Last Laugh Award
2018 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist)
2017 CWA Gold Dagger (shortlist)
2017 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger
THE BOOK BEHIND THE FOURTH SEASON OF SLOW HORSES, THE APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING GARY OLDMAN IN HIS EMMY-NOMINATED ROLE AS JACKSON LAMB.
What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but dont remember theyre secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good?
These are the paranoid concerns of David Cartwright, a Cold Warera operative and one-time head of MI5 who is sliding into dementia, and questions his grandson, River, must figure out answers to now that the spy who raised him has started to forget to wear pants.
But River, himself an agent at Slough House, MI5s outpost for disgraced spies, has other things to worry about. A bomb has detonated in the middle of a busy shopping center and killed forty innocent civilians. The slow horses of Slough House must figure out who is behind this act of terror before the situation escalates.
Genre: Thriller
What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for those who know too many secrets but dont remember theyre secret? Or does someone take care of the senile spy for good?
These are the paranoid concerns of David Cartwright, a Cold Warera operative and one-time head of MI5 who is sliding into dementia, and questions his grandson, River, must figure out answers to now that the spy who raised him has started to forget to wear pants.
But River, himself an agent at Slough House, MI5s outpost for disgraced spies, has other things to worry about. A bomb has detonated in the middle of a busy shopping center and killed forty innocent civilians. The slow horses of Slough House must figure out who is behind this act of terror before the situation escalates.
Genre: Thriller
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