![]() ![]() While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts.īut the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade’s circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. We’re back to discuss the fifth episode of the second season of the Apple TV Plus adaptation of Mick Herron’s Slow Horses. Follow the latest news about the upcoming AppleTV adaption here. The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. Mick Herron at St Cecilias Hall, Edinburgh Mick Herron is a British mystery and thriller novelist. The Barbican Station episode on the book Dead Lions. The slow horses, as theyre called, have all. The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. Londons Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away whats left of their failed careers. ![]()
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