Slough House by Mick HerronMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
In the first test of Diana Taverner's external financing of discreet operations, she has financed the hit on a GRU team who came on to British soil to assassinate one of their own and managed to kill an innocent British citizen as well. But very soon Lay Di realises that those who lay down with dogs get up with fleas and she is soon snared by the obnoxious BoJo lookie-likee Peter Judd and his right-wing media tycoon friend Damien Cantor who now believe the First Desk dances to their tune.
In other news, Slough House has been wiped from the Park's digital records in a fit of spite by Lady Di. Luckily for the Slow Horses the wipe doesn't affect deep systems like payroll. But with significant losses recently everyone is feeling a bit paranoid, which isn't helped when they discover they are being tailed. Oh and a couple of former Slow Horses are found dead in questionable circumstances. Are these two things linked? Is Jackson Lamb going to make a lot of very offensive remarks? Well yes of course. Oe of my favourite zingers was Lara Crufts.
Unless I am being particularly dense I didn't see any instance of Mick Herron trying the old bait and switch that I have complained about so bitterly in the last two books, which was nice. I had higher hopes for Roddy but he is descending into his own fantasyland where he thinks he's better than James Bond and Jason Bourne rolled together LOL.
Overall, loved it and am trying to stop myself from immediately buying the next one just because its payday.
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