I very much enjoy the wit and dialogue of Mick Herron's books, and the wonderful characters of Jackson Lamb, Roddy Ho and Diana Taverner. There's a TV version coming out in April starring Gary Oldman and I'll be watching it excitedly. But after six or seven books with similar plots and politics, it's becoming samey. Some new faces join the slow horses for unfair reasons, someone is trying to frame them, the Park massively muck up and expose state secrets, there's a climax involving blood and death and then Jackson Lamb saves the situation while picking his nose. I bought a book of Mick Herron's short stories, it will be interesting to see how much I enjoy his writing outside of the world of Slough House
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