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Joe Country
Joe Country | Mick Herron
9 posts | 11 read | 2 to read
If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him an outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. Meanwhile, in Regent's Park, Diana Taverner's tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she's going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil . . . And with winter taking its grip, Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends the slow horses out to even the score.
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Robotswithpersonality
Joe Country | Mick Herron
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Mehso-so

Oh, Mick, you were doing so well in making each entry in this series a tensley-plotted and craftily-resolved story, with maybe a hint about what might be raised in the next novel. This alone provided an experience that had me coming back for more. This book, however, while containing as much tension and as many twists and turns, raised so many concerns, not enough of which were resolved, and those that were, were not very satisfactorily done. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? The big showdown with River and his father is nothing more than a cliffside scuffle, and a few pages at the end suggest Harkness's multi-book pain-in-the-assery is now dealt with, no justice or face-to-face closure for his son?! Or Harkness is not dead and this a bullshit misdirect. 🙄 Coe's literal worst nightmare is, for all the reader can tell, how he spent his last moments? 4w
Robotswithpersonality 3/? Emma, the only person who after wrongfully being pushed out of a promising career track, tells Taverner to fuck off, rather than go Slough House, and helping out when it wasn't her job anymore, ends up dead?! The entire book is one long torturous descent of an innocent man into the depths of isolation and depression at the whims of bad actors and at the end he's scarred and his foes' fates are glossed over or pending? 4w
Robotswithpersonality 4/5 It's obvious it's set up for the next novel, which hopefully will be that much more explosive as a result, but 6 books into a series is pretty deep to start bringing out the type of cliffhanger-adjacent endings which I loathe. 🙎🏼‍♂️ Oh, and if it's possible, even though it's standard that people die and are betrayed in each book, I think things actually got darker than usual. 😕 4w
Robotswithpersonality 5/5 Either the next book will redeem the series, or it will be the last one I read. 😡
⚠️alcoholism, fatphobia, self harm
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Robotswithpersonality
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Super fun road trip! 😆

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andrew61
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Will try + do #20in4 @Andrew65 so today, + just finished another of the magnificent slow horses series. Jackson Lamb is a favourite character at the moment, altho in my mind, not Gary Oldman, so I won't be watching the TV series. Here, Slough House with a new resident is drawn into the hunt for some dodgy characters, while the normal secret service covers up for the establishment. Of course, any comparison to real characters must be coincidental

Andrew65 Excellent.👏👏👏 This is a series I am yet to get to. 1y
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charl08
Joe Country | Mick Herron

Brilliant book! I was trying to work things out all the way through (as well as laughing at the Boris jokes).

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charl08
Joe Country | Mick Herron
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What is this? Charlie's Angels?

(This is very much not.)

arubabookwoman I just finished this one last week. Wonder how long we‘ll have to wait for the next slow horses book. I‘m tempted to try one of his stand-alone? Have you read any of his non-slow horses books? 5y
charl08 @arubabookwoman I don't think so - and I didn't realise be wrote so many. Lots to find! 5y
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suffisaunce
Joe Country | Mick Herron
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This is a truly wonderful series. If you like spy stories--or even just great writing and characters who will become your friends--check these out, starting with Slow Horses. This latest entry has intricacies to delight as River, Louisa, and the other Slow Horses face new villains and old demons. Highly recommended!

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Lulu6
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TBR list💕

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IReadThereforeIBlog
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The 6th in Mick Herron‘s JACKSON LAMB SERIES is slow to start and there is a sense of Herron snipping old plot strands in order to move players and events into place for the end game. However there‘s a lot of good character development – particularly Lamb – the plot, when it gets going, moves at a good pace, there are 3 character deaths (one‘s very sad) and the mysterious ending makes me desperate to find out what awaits Slough House next.

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ssravp
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The Slough House series was a pleasant surprise when I first started it. Each one is so strong.