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Slow Horses

Slough House, Book 1

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Slow Horses

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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Slough House is Jackson Lamb’s kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who’ve screwed up: left a secret file on a train, blown surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They’re the service’s poor relations – the slow horses – and bitterest among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations. But when a young man is abducted, and it’s threatened that he’ll be beheaded live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem him.

Is the victim who he first appears to be? And what’s the kidnappers’ connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone involved has their own agenda….

©2010 Mick Herron (P)2010 Isis Publishing Ltd Crime Thrillers Espionage Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime Exciting

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What made the experience of listening to Slow Horses the most enjoyable?

Slow,evolving, intriguing story

What did you like best about this story?

Well formed characters and well defined plot

What does Sean Barrett bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Excellent, understated narration.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, because I enjoy walking and listening over a few days

Any additional comments?

Sean Barrett brings the characters to life.

A good listen

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Great narrator. Great turn of phrase by the author.
Not as densely plotted as le carre,and will certainly be reading more from this author.

Le Carré with a twist

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So delighted to have found this author and this group of "slow horses" can't wait to read more

Intriguing and compelling story and characters and brilliantly narrated

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Finished it in record time, absolutely loved it. Now about to download all the others!

Tremendous and gripping

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Slowish start with alot of laying out characters and multiple back stories.

Narrator good but difficult to tell sometimes when story has skipped to another scene and other characters.

Good story but clearly a 1st Installment

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Excellent secret service thriller that twists and turns at an excellent pace. Flashes of laugh out loud humour sprinkled into a serious plot with brilliantly real characters. A cracking book excellently read.

Not so slow!

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A superbly written series full of twist, turns and fabulously dark humour. Jackson Lamb is the undoubted star of the show as is the amazing narration by Sean Barrett

Can’t wait to see these transferred to the big screen

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The opening chapter of this book grabbed my attention almost immediately, It then seemed to meander along for some time before the story line developed. Well narrated and got better as it went along. Good book all in all and I'm glad i bought it.

Slow burner

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Loved it. Lots of different strands and intrigue. Good voice to listen to. Listening to the next in the series now.

Intriguing story

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Finished this so quickly amazing writing and delivery.
Hoping the rest of the series is as good.

Fantastic story and audiobook

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