Slow Horses
这是荣获 CWA 金匕首奖的英国间谍系列小说的第一本
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内容简介 · · · · · ·
《慢马》深刻地反映了英国间谍小说如何映射出英国在世界舞台上的衰落。赫伦笔下的退役MI5特工被分配到位于巴比肯附近的破败办公室。主角杰克逊·兰姆，外表粗犷、不拘小节，却对自己的队伍忠诚不二。在Apple TV+的改编剧中，加里·奥尔德曼（Gary Oldman）精湛地演绎了这个角色，他曾在电影中扮演过斯迈利（George Smiley）。
这是荣获 CWA 金匕首奖的英国间谍系列小说的第一本，主角是一支由英国军情五处 (MI5) 特工组成的团队，他们有一个共同的目标，他们彻底搞砸了，并且愿意做任何事情来赎罪。
伦敦的斯劳豪斯是军情五处那些被淘汰的间谍消磨他们失败职业生涯余生的地方。这些被称作“慢马”的人都因为某种原因丢了脸，才被降职到这里。也许他们把一次行动搞砸了，不再值得信任。也许他们妨碍了一位雄心勃勃的同事，被剥夺了工作机会。也许他们只是太依赖酒精了——这在这一行并不罕见。不过，他们都有一个共同点，那就是他们都想重返战场。他们中的大多数人愿意做任何事情来实现这个目标——即使这意味着必须相互合作。
里弗·卡特赖特就是这样一匹“慢马”，他对自己失败和记录手机通话的乏味任务感到苦恼。当一名年轻男子被绑架，绑匪威胁要在网上直播他的斩首过程时，里弗看到了一个救赎自己的机会。但受害者是否像他第一次出现时那样？绑匪与一名名誉扫地的记者有何关系？随着行刑时间的流逝，里弗发现每个人都有自己的计划。
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Mick Herron is a British mystery and thriller novelist. He is the author of the Slough House series, early novels of which have been adapted for the Slow Horses television series. He won the Crime Writers’ Association 2013 Gold Dagger award for Dead Lions.
Herron was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he earned a degree in English. He is one of six children; his father was an optician and his mother a nursery-school teacher.
In 2003, Herron published his first novel, Down Cemetery Road. It was the first volume in a four-book series about Zoë Boehm, an Oxford private detective.
In 2010, he began the Slough House spy series with the first volume Slow Horses. The series concerns MI5 agents who have been exiled from the agency mainstream for various failures. The second volume, Dead Lions, published in 2013, won the Crime Writers’ Association 2013 Gold Dagger award. Herron has stated that the lead character, Jackson Lamb, was influenced by Reginald Hill’s Andy Dalziel. As of December 2022, the series includes eight novels, plus several associated novellas, and events in related novels. Early volumes have also been adapted for television.
Slow Horses was published by Constable in 2010, but the firm declined the opportunity to publish the next book in the series in the United Kingdom due to disappointing sales of its predecessor. Soho published the Slough House novels in the United States, and John Murray started republishing the series in the UK from 2015.
Herron’s short stories have been regularly published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and some are collected in the book All the Livelong Day, published in 2013.
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