Terrific. Best of its kind.

Once starting the Slow Horse series in early January, I just couldn’t stop! The characters, their dialog, the exciting espionage scenarios all make for a wonderful ride around London “secret” world of MI5. You want to read quickly because of the action, but you actually read slower to savor the humor, sarcasm, and Britishness. Can’t wait til the ninth book is out.

A little slow to take off but once it does you won’t want to stop reading. Lamb as usual is ahead of everyone.

So good - funny and smart - mick has such a way with words and they just conjure up such lively images of the characters and actions - hope this one gets to be on the apple tv series too !

Fast-moving and witty, most entertaining book in the series !

Didn’t want the story to end. So I put it down and occupied myself with stupid until I had to finish. And I did, at 1:00 am not being able to sleep. Brilliant as always.

Compared to previous sloughouse novels, this seemed hurriedly fleshed out, poorly paced, jarring back and forth storylines. Herron didn’t have his heart in this one. And to leave us wanting to see the final confrontation between Sparrow and Taverner, and getting instead unsatisfying vignettes of the main characters…….well some might say minimalism is better than a wallop over the head, and that’s Herron’s glib style, but this novel needed a bang somewhere in those chapters and it never delivered. And how the Russian secret service would deal with the Russian first desk’s disappearance? It’s consequences?completely not explained or thought out. Almost an aside. Silly actually. No drama. I’m sorry but I was expecting more from this long awaited addition to the series.

I love these books! The characters are fantastic. I can see Boris Johnson in the background. I always finish these books ready for the next!

Felt like it should have been novella.