River Cartwright blew up his career on a mission gone bad. Now he labors with other failed intelligence workers in "Slough House," shuffling paper, picking through garbage and doing soul-sucking work designed to drive them out of the job--or at least keep them out of way. This is an anti-John le Carré novel : instead of brilliant intelligence analysts sorting out a case, it's screwups and political outcasts. Except that Slough House is led by Jackson Lamb, a man who might be far more competent than he behaves. Author Mick Herron has an unusual gift for misdirecting the reader, in fact this might be his most notable technical skill. The reader spends a good portion of the book either in the dark or deliberately set up with incorrect beliefs about what's happening. [A quick affiliate link to Amazon for those readers who would like to support my work here: if you purchase your Amazon products via any affiliate link from this site, or from my sister site Casual Kitch...
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