Books like Slow Horses
Slough House is where MI5 sends the agents whose careers it has ended, to push paper under the slovenly Jackson Lamb, and River Cartwright, exiled there after a botched exercise, sees a chance at redemption when a young man is kidnapped and threatened with a beheading on the internet.
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Dan Freeman becomes the CIA's first Black officer, kept by the agency as a token near the door, and after five years quietly resigns and goes home to Chicago's South Side with everything the agency taught him.
Our Man in Havana
A hapless British vacuum-cleaner salesman in Havana is recruited by MI6 and, with nothing to report, invents a network of agents, with darkly comic and then dangerous consequences.
The Quiller Memorandum
Quiller, a British agent who works alone, takes over the hunt for a neo-Nazi organisation in Berlin after the last man on the job is shot.
The Mask of Dimitrios
Charles Latimer, an English writer of detective stories visiting Istanbul, is shown the body of Dimitrios Makropoulos, a notorious criminal pulled from the Bosphorus, and becomes curious enough to trace the dead man's life across Europe.
The Amulet of Samarkand
In a London ruled by magicians, Nathaniel, a young apprentice humiliated by the powerful Simon Lovelace, summons Bartimaeus, a five-thousand-year-old djinni, and sends him to steal Lovelace's amulet.
The Light of Day
Arthur Abdel Simpson, a small-time crook in Athens, is caught stealing from a client and made to drive a car across the border into Turkey, where the police are waiting with a job of their own.
Ratking
Aurelio Zen, a Rome police official parked in a dead-end job, is sent to Perugia to take over the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti, a powerful industrialist whose family seems in no hurry to get him back.
The Kill Artist
Gabriel Allon, an art restorer living quietly on the Cornish coast, once killed for Israeli intelligence; his old spymaster Ari Shamron draws him back to hunt Tariq al-Hourani, the Palestinian terrorist behind the Vienna car bomb that took his family from him.
Layer Cake
A polite London cocaine wholesaler wants one more job before he retires, and the London of ecstasy importers, dirty cops, and old East End families has not read his retirement memo.
Eye of the Needle
In 1944 a German spy in England known as the Needle discovers the secret of the D-Day invasion and heads for a U-boat rendezvous, with MI5 on his trail and a storm closing in.
The Night Manager
A former soldier working as night manager of a Zurich hotel is recruited by British intelligence to work his way into the inner circle of a charming arms dealer.
Dear Debbie
Debbie Mullen, a New England advice columnist with a genius IQ and little patience, loses her job on the same bad day that her daughter is dropped from the soccer team and her neighbour accuses her of sabotage, and she decides the people who have wronged her should pay.