This is the third novel in the Slow Horses series by Mick Herron. It continues the story of a bunch of exiled MI5 officers who are assigned to Slough House in the expectation that given dull and repetitive work, they will resign and save the service the effort of firing them. Some of them were exiled for costly mistakes they made on the job, one was exiled after someone deliberately sabotaged a training exercise he was leading, and another for simply being disliked. As in the first two books, they're drawn into a major operation when one of their own is kidnapped in order to coerce another agent to steal classified information. When he's caught, it quickly becomes clear that this was only the start of a much larger operation and all of the "slow horses" must work together to figure out who's behind the kidnapping and what's really going on. These books have fast-paced action and snappy dialogue. There's a lot of humor but also intrigue and suspense.
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