Slough House

Readers of Mick Herron's Slough House series will welcome the return of Jackson Lamb and his cohorts.  With Brexit in full swing and due to mysterious accidents, the Slough House ranks continue to be decimated.

It is rather difficult to talk about Slough House without giving too much away however, the members of Slough House are worried.  They have discovered that they have been wiped off the MI5 database, are sure that they are being followed and the mysterious deaths of former members is making them worried.  Not something that they are happy about.  Meanwhile the head of MI5 (still hurting from the Novichok poisoning) joins arch political manipulator Peter Judd in mounting a retaliatory operation funded by “angels”. But is this a good move?  Jackson Lamb is on magnificently sharp, repellent form.

Slough House has its usual complex but still comprehensible plot involving the usual political deceit but still having the ability to make some serious points about life and the current state of the world especially the U.K.  It’s gripping, involving, very funny in places and has a very shrewd story-line.   The Slough House series is certainly satirical but it is no less believable as a result.  Slough House of course does live up to my expectations. Readers of the series have nothing to worry about.  It is razor sharp, smart, hilarious, scathingly, acute, and as for that ending – it goes without saying that it is stunning!