Novel: Spook Street by Mick Herron
Mick Herron’s superb Slough House novels are worthy enough in and of themselves, but now my enthusiasm is also feeding off the addictiveness of the also-superb Apple+ adapation, Slow Horses. …
TV: Tehran (Season 2)
While Apple’s Israeli-produced, Iran-set thriller Tehran is by no means as impressive as its hit spy series Slow Horses, it’s a brisk, respectable saga notable for its refreshingly non-western perspective. …
TV: Slow Horses (Season 2)
In year chock-full of wonderful shows, Apple’s Slow Horses, based on the intricate, funny spy novels of Mick Herron, may be my absolute favorite. It might well have earned that …
Novel: Real Tigers by Mick Herron
Mick Herron makes this stuff look easy. Effortlessly read, fast-paced, and funny, Real Tigers (2016) is the third full Slough House novel and it’s every bit as enthralling as the earlier books. …
TV: The Resort (Season 1)
In an incredible year of television, it’s impossible not to notice the pattern: the shows that speak to my heart in 2022 reflect an atmosphere of collective grief. Mark S.’s …
Novella: The List by Mick Herron
In between the major novels of the Slough House spy series, Mick Herron has also penned a handful of interstitial novellas set in the same universe. Based on the first …
TV: Slow Horses (Season 1)
I’ve only read the first two novels of Mick Herron’s Slough House series, but they’re pretty solid evidence he’s one of spy fiction’s best contemporary practitioners. This is definitely true …
Novel: Dead Lions by Mick Herron
If Slow Horses was the tempting bait, Mick Herron’s Dead Lions (2013) is the enthralling hook, not just a welcome return to a clever milieu but a next-level improvement. This …
Novel: Slow Horses by Mick Herron
It was time for some classic British spy fiction, and this time I stumbled randomly across Mick Herron’s Slow Horses (2010), which turned out to be the perfect pick. The …