★★★★☆ | Spy-Detective | Digital | Own | StoryGraph | Goodreads
The second installment of the Slow Horses series. This one departed enough from the TV series to keep me guessing. Jackson Lamb is such a terrific character. Perhaps not great literature, but engaging and fun.
Highlights
What enormous things must have happened, River sometimes thought, to make sure that nothing ever changed.
Lamb had done both field and desk, and he knew which had you gasping awake at the slightest noise in the dark. But he’d yet to meet a suit who didn’t think themselves a samurai.
Strategy was nine tenths reaction. Study any situation too long, you can think yourself into paralysis.
If you carried on looking like you were holding it all together, pretty soon you were holding it all together.