{"product_id":"slow-horses-9781399803052","title":"Slow Horses : The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first novel in the acclaimed Jackson Lamb series, described by The Telegraph as one of ‘the twenty greatest spy novels of all time’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Let us be clear about this much at least: Slough House is not in Slough, nor is it a house…'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou don't stop being a spook just because you're no longer in the game.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWelcome to Slough House, Regent’s Park, a graveyard for members of the intelligence service no longer in the game – the slow horses. A motley crew of criminals, abusers and troubled souls, banished for various crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal – they all belong to Jackson Lamb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJackson Lamb's misfits may be highly trained but they don't run ops, they push paper. When a boy is kidnapped and held hostage and his attackers promise to behead him, live on the net, a chance opens up for the slow horses to redeem themselves and whatever the instructions of the Service, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quiet and watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, as they begin to investigate, a more complex web of deceit and double agency begins to opens up. Is the victim who they claim to be? What is the connection with a disgraced journalist? Who else has something to hide?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the clock ticks, everyone, it seems, is in the game, with dangerous pieces at play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Newcastle, Mick Herron is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer whose works include the bestselling Jackson Lamb series, the Sarah Tucker\/Zoë Boehm series and the standalone novel Reconstruction .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Jackson Lamb novels in order: Slow Horses, Dead Lions , Real Tigers , Spook Street\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Mick Herron\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eCrime \u0026amp; mystery, Thriller \/ suspense\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 3 Mar 2022 by John Murray Press.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mick Herron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319890878842,"sku":"9781399803052","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9781399803052.jpg?v=1790636551","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/ga\/products\/slow-horses-9781399803052","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}