The story while superficially similar is different enough from the teleplay to be worth experiencing both. The original story here (if you’ve watched TV first) is far tighter, the Slow Horses far more an ensemble group (all are living breathing highly individual characters, each flawed in a different style, with unique implications). Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn’t mean you can’t uncover secrets.ĭickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.I re-listened to this immediately after watching the new TV treatment of it (desperately disappointing casting in season 2 after the excellent work in all respects of bringing book 1 to the screen). On Dickie’s phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service’s back-yard. But he’s not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day.
Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets.
‘The new king of the spy thriller’ Mail on Sundayįrom the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus.
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
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