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, compared to Raymond Chandler and Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, Elmore Leonard and Joseph Heller. Herron's novels are "a funny, borderline farcical, marvelously cynical caricature of politicians, functionaries, infighting, and the Big Game" (Booklist), and the "lame horses," a.k.a. the Slough Tower wimps, are delinquent counterintelligence officers punished "for addiction to drugs, alcohol, or debauchery; for intrigue and treachery; for discontent and doubt; and for inexcusable missteps." Overseeing them is Jackson Lamb, "the Falstaff of our day" (Sunday Times) and "one of the most monstrous characters in modern literature" (Bernard Cornwell). But, as we know, there are no former "clerks", and every weakling, engaged in meaningless clericality, dreams of justifying himself, to return to the operational work in Regent's Park. And when terrorists kidnap a teenager and threaten to cut off his head live on YouTube, the wimps are not going to sit idly by... Based on the first books of the series "Slough Tower" launched in production of a television series (two seasons at once), shooting was conducted in 2020-2021. The role of Jackson Lamb was played by Gary Oldman, and the series also starred Jack Lowden, Olivia Cooke, Jonathan Pryce, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christopher Cheung. The director of the first season was James Howes ("Merlin", "Black Mirror", "Doctor Who", "The Alienist", "Raised by Wolves").
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