Dander’s character arc, for example, can only really be seen through the prism of her developing friendship with Longridge.

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Tom Bettany works in a meat packing facility in France when he hears that his son, Liam, is dead, killed by a fall from his balcony. It also serves as a fine riposte to series like 'Spooks' which gives us noble heroes putting their lives on the line for the greater good - here we're grubbing in the dirt and there's nothing to separate the Service under Ingrid Tearney's maleficent and self-serving rule from the East End gangsters and Russian mafia hoods she's supposedly fighting against. Bettany and Liam had been estranged when Liam died and Bettany always thought he'd have time to make things work again with his son. As ever, Herron imbues the whole thing with a sense of authenticity and never needs to labour his points.The Slough House series has been adapted for television under the name Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, [3] with the first six-part season, based on the book Slow Horses, streamed on Apple TV+ from 1 April 2022. The Secret Hours is set around the time of or after Bad Actors but includes a section set well before the series begins. strips his revenge story to the bone, paring away unnecessary characters, episodes, speeches and gestures to produce a violent little elegy that grows both more clever and more sour as it hurtles along. He might have thought he'd left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody really just walks away. Like a tethered goat, “Dame Spook” uses the gullible JK Coe of Psych Eval as her go-between and Bettany – signalling Coe’s eventual fate as a “Slow Horse”.

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Thus compromised, Lady Di is forced to go on the run, and has to reach out to the one person she would least like to ask for help… Jackson Lamb. It also lays the ground for the events of Joe Country, and at the same time introduces a series villain, ex-CIA operative Frank Harkness. Herron won the prestigious CWA Gold Dagger for this novel, though for my money his debut is a better book.Plenty of factors just don’t add up, as Sarah goes up to Newcastle to see whether she can get to the bottom of the case.