Slow Horses

Shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award'The finest new crime series this Millennium' Mail on SundaySlough House is a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a service file on a train, say, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They're the service's poor relations - the slow horses - and most bitter among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations.But when a young man is abducted, an ...