The Slow Horses. Otherwise Slow Horses is a peculiar book because there is action without action and this is where my perspective with layers comes in. Slow Horses follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 Slough House.
Theyve screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. Londons Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away whats left of their failed careers. And whatever the instructions of the Service the slow horses arent going to just sit quiet and watch.
Otherwise Slow Horses is a peculiar book because there is action without action and this is where my perspective with layers comes in.
It is neither a house nor is it in Slough but as the joke about the etymology of the name goes a discussion and gossip between spies that runs. Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after theyve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. With Gary Oldman Olivia Cooke Kristin Scott Thomas Jonathan Pryce. Slow Horses follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 Slough House.