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It's an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing. With the police more interested in keeping the neighbors from rubbernecking than in searching for the missing child, Sarah becomes obsessed with finding her, and enlists the help of Oxford private investigator Zoë Boehm. But Sarah's and Zoë's search reveals more secrets than answers.

Zoë Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death ever since she shot the man intent on killing her. So when Caroline Daniels takes a deadly fall in front of a train and her lover fails to turn up at the funeral, Zoë wants nothing to do with the case. But Caroline’s boss is persistent, and as Zoë attempts to unlock the secrets of a woman she’s never met while in search of a man who could be anywhere, she starts to wonder if he’s found her first. And if he has, will that make her the next victim, or prove to be her salvation from a paralyzing fear?

A drop, in spook parlance, is the passing on of secret information. It's also what happens just before you hit the ground. Old spooks carry the memory of tradecraft in their bones, and when Solomon Dortmund sees an envelope being passed from one pair of hands to another in a Marylebone cafe, he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter. But in relaying his suspicions to John Bachelor, who babysits retired spies like Solly for MI5, he sets in motion a train of events that will alter lives.

In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced spies of MI5, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. Meanwhile, in Regent's Park, Diana Taverner's tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she's going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil....

The death of Tom Bettany's estranged 26-year-old son brings him back to London. His return sparks the interest of everyone from mobsters to MI5 officers - he may have thought he left his old life as a spy behind, but nobody just walks away. Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets the voicemail from an English woman he doesn't know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead. Liam was smoking dope on his London balcony when he fell....

Oxford private detective Zoë Boehm turns up dead in Newcastle, launching her friend Sarah Tucker into an investigation with several leads—but no one she can trust. When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as private detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions.

When Zoë Boehm agrees to track down the gang who knocked over Sweeney’s jewelry shop, she’s just hoping to break even in time for tax season. She certainly doesn’t expect to wind up in a coffin. But she’s about to become entangled with a strange collection of characters, starting with suicidal Tim Whitby, who’s dedicating what’s left of his life to protecting the pretty, battered Katrina Blake from her late husband’s sociopathic brothers, Arkle and Trent.

A Londra, alla sede dell’MI5 a Regent’s Park, il capo dei servizi segreti Claude Whelan sta imparando a sue spese che il ruolo da Prima scrivania comporta molti più oneri che onori. Incaricato di garantire che le imminenti elezioni amministrative si svolgano senza intoppi, si trova bersagliato da ogni fronte: da un parlamentare agitatore di folle che pontifica contro qualunque minoranza; dalla moglie di quest’ultimo, che non perde occasione per attaccare Whelan sui tabloid; e soprattutto dalla sua vice, Lady D Taverner, sempre pronta a fargli le scarpe.

David Cartwright, long buried, has left his library to the Spooks’ College in Oxford, and now one of the books is missing. Or perhaps it never existed. River, once a “slow horse” of Slough House, MI5’s outpost for demoted and disgraced spies, has some time to kill while awaiting medical clearance to return to work, and starts investigating the secrets of his grandfather’s library.

Anche se si è ritirato dall’intelligence da vent’anni, David Cartwright ricorda benissimo dove sono nascosti gli scheletri. Ma quando ci si dimentica che certi segreti tali devono restare, ecco che cominciano i problemi. Il Vecchio Bastardo ha cresciuto suo nipote per diventare un eroe, non certo un perdente. Ma River Cartwright ha commesso un errore colossale all’inizio della sua carriera da spia ed è diventato uno dei Brocchi di Jackson Lamb: agenti in disgrazia condannati a smistare scartoffie nella Casa del pantano, sognando invano di poter riavere un posto in prima fila.

London, England: Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated there. Maybe they botched an Op so badly they can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they have in common, though, is they want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there.

When a gunman breaks into South Oxford Nursery School and takes a group of hostages, teacher Louise Kennedy fears the worst. But Jaime Segura isn’t there on a homicidal mission, and he’s just as scared as those whose lives he holds as collateral. As a police presence builds outside the school’s gates, the only person Jaime will talk to is Ben Whistler, an MI6 accountant who worked with Jaime’s lover, Miro. Miro’s gone missing, along with a quarter of a billion pounds allotted for reconstruction work in Iraq. Jaime refuses to believe that Miro is a thief—though he’s always had his secrets.

Eine Söldnertruppe radiert ein Dorf in Derbyshire aus. Kurz darauf wird ein Pinguingehege im Londoner Zoo in die Luft gesprengt – beim Inlandsgeheimdienst MI5 herrscht Alarmstufe Rot. In Slough House dagegen gähnende Langeweile, bis Roderick Ho, Ober-Nerd der abservierten Agententruppe, nur knapp einem stümperhaft ausgeführten Attentat entgeht. Seine Kollegen eilen ihm (widerwillig) zu Hilfe und machen aus einer schwierigen Situation – das Schlimmste.

Los agentes de la Casa de la Ciénaga, donde los mandos del servicio de inteligencia británico envían a los espías caídos en desgracia, reciben el encargo de proteger a un oligarca ruso de visita en el país que el MI5 pretende alistar en sus filas. Mientras dos agentes son enviados al trabajo de vigilancia, Dickie Bow, un antiguo espía de la época de la Guerra Fría, es hallado muerto en los asientos traseros de un autobús en las afueras de Oxford.

Cuando secuestran a un miembro de su grupo y les exigen un rescate, los agentes de la Casa de la Ciénaga se ven obligados a superar todos los pronósticos sobre su competencia para burlar las férreas medidas de seguridad de la oficina central de inteligencia del MI5 y robar información valiosa como moneda de cambio para salvar a su colega. Sin embargo, ese incidente no es más que la punta del iceberg de una conspiración a gran escala, en la que no solo está implicada una banda que trabaja por libre, sino también el estamento más alto del servicio secreto.

El reino del irreverente y sarcástico Jackson Lamb está en Londres y se llama Casa de la Ciénaga, un vertedero al que van a parar los miembros de los servicios secretos que han cometido un error, ya sea olvidar un documento en un tren, despistarse en una ronda de vigilancia o volverse poco fiables a causa del alcohol. Sus colegas los denominan "caballos lentos", son los parientes pobres del espionaje británico y todos comparten las ganas de salir de allí a cualquier precio y volver a la acción.

River Cartwright ist einer der Abservierten des MI5. Sein Großvater dagegen, einst Nummer 2 des britischen Inlandgeheimdienstes, ist heute alt und vergesslich und deshalb ein potenzielles Risiko, aber nicht hilflos. Als eines Abends ein Fremder an seiner Tür steht und sich als sein Enkel ausgibt, erschießt er ihn sofort. Der echte Enkel findet in den Taschen des Toten eine Fahrkarte nach Frankreich – zufällig in den Ort, in dem sein Großvater immer "Urlaub" gemacht hatte.

Catherine Standish ist die diskrete Assistentin von Jackson Lamb, dem jähzornigen Chef der Geheimdienstagenten, die im Dienst versagt haben. Als sie eines Morgens nicht zur Arbeit erscheint, merkt sogar Lamb, dass sie fehlt. Mehr noch: Sie wurde entführt - von einem ehemaligen Liebhaber. Doch Catherines Entführung ist nur die Spitze des Eisbergs einer viel größeren Verschwörung - gegen den MI5 und sogar den Premierminister.

Zwei Agenten von Slough House, einem Abstellgleis des MI5, erhalten den Auftrag, einen russischen Oligarchen zu beschützen. Gleichzeitig wird ein ehemaliger Spion aus kalten Kriegszeiten tot aufgefunden, angeblich infolge eines Schlaganfalls. Bei beiden Fällen spielen russische Schläfer eine wichtige Rolle: "Dead Lions". Ausgerechnet die Agenten, denen keiner etwas zutraut, sind beim Erwachen der Löwen dabei.

River Cartwright ist ein ausgemusterter MI5-Agent, und er ist es leid, nur noch Müllsäcke zu durchsuchen und abgehörte Telefonate zu transkribieren. Er wittert seine Chance, als ein pakistanischer Jugendlicher entführt wird und live im Netz enthauptet werden soll. Doch ist das Opfer der, der er zu sein vorgibt? Und wer steckt hinter den Entführern? Die Uhr tickt, und jeder der Beteiligten hat seine eigene Agenda. Auch Rivers Chef.