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White, Peter (15 November 2019). "Gary Oldman To Star In Spy Drama 'Slow Horses' For Apple With 'Justified's Graham Yost Exec Producing". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 7 September 2020 . Retrieved 26 January 2021.

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Petski, Denise (1 June 2022). " 'Slow Horses' Renewed For Seasons 3 & 4 By Apple TV+". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 14 March 2023 . Retrieved 1 June 2022. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. If you like your suspense novels told with a smart dash of wit and sarcasm, filled with lots of twists and turns, Herron’s your man.”Herron provides a dour, twisty spy thriller with something for everyone: part post–Cold War miasma, part James Bond heroics, and elliptical withal.” Herron's short stories have been regularly published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and some are collected in the book All the Livelong Day, published in 2013. The plotting which did lead you by the arm into cul-de-sacs and dead ends before pulling the rug under your feet – and the denouement in the Cotswold village of Upshott was effective. Samuel West as Peter Judd MP, a rising right-wing Conservative politician (series 1) and later Home Secretary (series 2).

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a b Yossman, K.J. (29 April 2022). " 'Slow Horses' Adds 'Peaky Blinders' Star Aimee-Ffion Edwards, 'This Is Going to Hurt's' Kadiff Kirwan to Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022 . Retrieved 2 December 2022. Slow Horses was published by Constable in 2010, but the firm declined the opportunity to publish the next book in the series in the United Kingdom due to disappointing sales of its predecessor. Soho published the Slough House novels in the United States, and John Murray started republishing the series in the UK from 2015. [7] Roddy Ho is the computer whiz, uber-geek and the butt of everyone’s jokes, not just Lamb’s. He’s ineffectual, arrogant and completely unaware of his failings.Min Harper had left an important file on an underground train. In Catherine Standish’s case the error had been of a more personal kind – she had been an alcoholic. Possibly they might not have done anything wrong at all but had simply got in the way of a more ambitious colleague. They were given mainly routine tasks to do by their betters in The Park, the intention being that they would eventually be driven to hand in their resignations. River speaks with his grandfather about Bough's death. David discusses the "cicada" theory of Russian sleeper agents embedded in British society, which MI5 dismissed as a hoax after no sleepers were found and discovered that the programme's alleged mastermind, Alexander Popov, did not exist. He tells River that Bough went AWOL in East Berlin and was assumed to have defected, but returned drunk. Bough claimed to have been kidnapped and tortured by Popov, who force-fed him brandy, but was fired. David dismisses River's theory that Bough's death was the work of the FSB or related to a conspiracy, but warns River to be careful. Robotham shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger". Books+Publishing. 14 August 2020 . Retrieved 16 August 2020. Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge are the odd couple, though they’re not even a couple. She was in comms at The Park before she laid out a co-worker, and also has addiction issues. He used to break down doors and carry a gun before his gambling problems compromised him. Olivia Cooke as Sidonie "Sid" Baker (season 1), a competent MI5 agent inexplicably assigned to Slough House.

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A] masterful thriller . . . The intricate plot, coupled with Herron’s breezy writing style, results in superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison.” Yossman, K. J. (11 January 2023). "Sope Dirisu Joins Apple's Slow Horses Season 3 (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023 . Retrieved 11 April 2023.Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Ho, Dander and Standish deduce that Chernitsky never left the UK, and just planted his phone in the luggage of a touring folk band at the airport. Using his cover as a journalist from The Times, River befriends Kelly, the daughter of the suspected sleeper agent Duncan Tropper. He discovers through her that Tropper and his wife Alex used to be student radicals who moved to the village from London. The family invite him to dinner and introduce him to their visiting friend Leo, who is actually Chernitsky. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas (2022) - Includes all novellas in the Slough House series published as of 2022. The character-driven narrative, which does touch on cliche and can be overblown and over-the-top but is generally successful at creating likeable characters whom we care about despite – possibly because – of their failings. This was a strong ensemble cast.

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Recommended without hesitation for anyone who enjoys a fast-paced, funny read that folds crime fiction and espionage into one.” — CrimeFictionLover

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Second season of acclaimed series starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman premieres globally Friday, 2 December on Apple TV+ If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers". Spectator.co.uk . Retrieved 18 December 2016. But Dead Lions holds greater value than simply its humour. In addition to the many characters’ very modern and entertaining screw-ups and ingenious plot entanglements, the novel exudes a wonderful sense of irony and world-weary wisdom that comes to the fore just when it’s needed. And thankfully, Dead Lions does not have a Disney-ending, so we can look forward to more from this ragtag bunch in the future. Chernitsky ambushes Ho on the train and escapes after an altercation with Dander. Lamb calls Katinsky, deducing that he is the supposedly fictional Russian spymaster "Alexander Popov". Katinsky reveals that outside of his part in the Glasshouse plot, he also intended to kill Lamb in retribution for Charles Partner, his mole at MI5. Lamb, already aware of this, had notified David that he was another potential target due to his complicity in Partner's death. By the time River arrives at Tunbridge Wells by plane with Kelly, David has already ambushed and killed Chernitsky with a shotgun. Louisa and Longridge kill Pashkin when he attempts to escape the Glasshouse, having betrayed and killed Piotr along the way. Realizing he has been outmaneuvered, Katinsky goads Lamb to kill him. Lamb instead leaves Katinsky with one bullet left in his revolver, and Katinsky kills himself.

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