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Jackson Lamb
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A series of spy thrillers by Mick Herron. The books centre around Slough House, a dumping ground for the incompetent, unfortunate and inconvenient employees that the UK's spy agency MI5 can't simply sack, prosecute or otherwise remove. Given the name of the building, they’re mockingly called "Slow Horses".And the staff of Slough House all work for Jackson Lamb, a legendary and monstrous veteran of the cold war. Lamb himself is deliberately horrible to his team, but he's anything but incompetent. And, regardless of whether or not he actually likes them, he won't tolerate anyone putting his team at risk.As well as the main series, there are a few shorter novels and short stories in the same setting - which aren’t always centred around Slough House, but sometimes explain why certain Slow Horses were reassigned there.Now adapted into a Slow Horses TV show, starring Gary Oldman. | |
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Fat Slob | |
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Fat Slob: Jackson Lamb. He makes a point of being crass and dishevelled, at least partly because he enjoys trolling those who have to deal with him. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Peter Judd is definitely not Boris Johnson. Something which is lampshaded in Slough House, when Judd's left politics but Boris Johnson is apparently Prime Minister. Judd himself makes a few comparisons between the two. | |
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Underestimating Badassery | |
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Underestimating Badassery: The page quote on Jackson Lamb, paints him as someone even 'The Dogs' shouldn't second guess and he proves it. | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Happens more than once in the Bachelor novellas. The main sequence novels tend to be slightly more positive. | |
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Bad Boss | |
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Bad Boss: Jackson Lamb himself. A conversation with Ingrid Tearney in Real Tigers makes it clear that this is a directive from MI5 leadership, who want the Slow Horses to quit. Tearney is concerned that Lamb may be going too far out of malicious compliance and becoming a hate figure who encourages them to dig their heels in and stay. Lamb deflects that question, which she noticed. The leadership of MI5 often falls into this category, especially ‘Lady Di’ Taverner and Ingrid Tearney. | |
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Mirroring Factions | |
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Mirroring Factions: For all the contempt that the Slow Horses get from the rest of the service, it is often apparent that the supposed 'elite' of Regent's Park are in fact pretty incompetent and prone to disastrous fuck-ups themselves; what they in fact tend to excel at is finding others to take the fall for their mistakes. | |
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Spy Fiction | |
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Spy Fiction: Decidedly of the "Stale Beer" variety. The cheap, nasty kind, with a couple of fag-ends floating on the top. | |
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We Have Reserves | |
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We Have Reserves: This sometimes seems to be the MI5 leadership’s view of the Slow Horses. Jackson Lamb, for all his faults, does not agree. | |
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Gasshole | |
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Gasshole: Jackson Lamb. Capable of farting on demand, which is usually whenever he wants to dismiss someone else's contribution to a conversation. | |
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Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The ever-changing list of spies reassigned to Slough House. | |
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Stealth Sequel | |
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Stealth Sequel: The 2023 novel The Secret Hours was promoted as a standalone book about the civil servants assigned to the Monochrome inquiry into secret service misconduct, and how the OTIS files shake up an otherwise thwarted investigation. However, the Slough House novella Standing By The Wall features a scene with Molly Doran thinking about Monochrome, and centers around a very old photo of Jackson, Molly and Otis. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Jackson Lamb himself. | |
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