This is brilliant. After an uncharacteristically slow start (with the slow horses being lined up and introducing themselves partly with reference to events in the book), it really takes off.
Centres on a thinly disguised Dominic Cummings apparatchik of the thinly disguised and now ex PM plotting to take over control of the Intelligence Services and trying to stitch up Diane Taverner. Probably not a good move, as Jackson Lamb is uncharacteristically supportive.
There are two brilliantly written set pieces, one on Wimbledon Common where half of the Slough House team are trying to track down and protect a Russian girl who is central to the plot and the other in a sanatorium in (?) Dorset, where Shirley Dander has been sent following an angry episode with an iron.
Herron at this best, which is very good.
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