Slow Horses: Slough House Thriller 1

Business fucking Studies. It wasn’t entirely true to say that his father had chosen it for him, but it was true that his father had been a lot more supportive of this than he would have been of, say, drama. Hassan would have liked to study drama. But he’d have had to fund it himself, so where had the harm been in going with the flow? That way, he’d

Found anything interesting?’ ‘Define interesting.’ ‘Let’s pretend for the moment I’m your boss.’ ‘It’s about as interesting as a bagful of household rubbish gets. Sir.’

The Service had a long and honourable tradition of women dying behind enemy lines, but was less enthusiastic about placing them behind important desks.