This series of novels about MI5's set of outcasts known as "Slow Horses" just gets better and better. In this fifth book in the series, a series of seemingly random terrorist attacks has shocked the nation, and one of the slow horses, Roderick Ho, has been connected somehow to the perpetrators. Slough House has been put on lockdown and during their gripe session, they figure out that the terrorists are following a template created by the government itself to destabilize a small developing nation, although the draft plan was never implemented. They have to stop the next attack before their bosses at MI5 figure it out, but their efforts only confuse the situation further. Sent home, they split up to try to stop the fifth and final terrorist act before the plan is made public. As in the earlier books, there is a lot of humor in the dialog, character descriptions, and plot. But it's still a suspenseful and fraught book that kept me on the edge of my seat all the way through.
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