Londonâs Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away whatâs left of their careers. The âSlow Horses,â as theyâre called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op
badly, or got in the way of an ambitious colleague. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottleânot unusual in this line of work. One thing these failed spies have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action.
Now the Slow Horses have a chance at redemption. An old Cold Warâera spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. As the agents dig in to their fallen comradeâs circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of
ancient Cold War secrets. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?