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Lame horses

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Mick Herron has been called "the John le Carré of our time" and the new hope of British literature, and has been compared to Raymond Chandler and Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, Elmore Leonard and Joseph Heller. Herron's novels are "funny, bordering on farcical, marvelously cynical caricatures of politicians, functionaries, internecine squabbles, and the Great Game" (Booklist), while the "lame horses," aka the weaklings of Slough Tower, are delinquent counterintelligence agents punished "for their addiction to drugs, alcohol, or debauchery; for intrigue and betrayal; for discontent and doubt; and for an unforgivable lapse." Their overseer is Jackson Lamb—"a modern-day Falstaff" (Sunday Times) and "one of the most monstrous characters in modern literature" (Bernard Cornwell). But, as we know, there are no former "office workers," and every weakling, occupied with pointless paperwork, dreams of redeeming himself and returning to the field in Regent's Park. And when terrorists kidnap a teenager and threaten to behead him live on YouTube, weaklings aren't going to sit idly by...
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