Slow Horses
Sidelined spies find self-worth and a shot at redemption.
Mick Herron’s 2010 novel Slow Horses is a spy story that’s about more than spies and spying. If Len Deighton’s The Ipcress File is about class, Slow Horses is about misfits surviving organisational politics.
Where The Office poked fun at workplace politics, Slow Horses explores the full cynical glory of witnessing it in action. There’s plenty of dark humour to go around with an assortment of eccentric characters, including a disheveled departmental boss who delights in heart-attack food and politically incorrect comments.
There are twelve published Slow Horses novels and an Apple TV series with five completed seasons.