--- product_id: 319622119 title: "Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House)" price: "AR$61204" currency: ARS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/319622119-slow-horses-deluxe-edition-slough-house store_origin: AR region: Argentina --- # Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House) **Price:** AR$61204 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House) - **How much does it cost?** AR$61204 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.ar](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/319622119-slow-horses-deluxe-edition-slough-house) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A New York Times bestselling series THE BOOK BEHIND THE FIRST SEASON OF SLOW HORSES , THE APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES STARRING GARY OLDMAN IN HIS EMMY-NOMINATED ROLE AS JACKSON LAMB. Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agents is united by one common bond: They've screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves. This deluxe edition of a modern classic includes a foreword by the author, discussion questions for book clubs, and an exclusive short story featuring the slow horses. London, England: Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated there. Maybe they botched an Op so badly they can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they have in common, though, is they want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there─even if it means having to collaborate with one another. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, the slow horses see an opportunity to redeem themselves. But is the victim really who he appears to be? Review: A Great Start to a Fantastic Series - Slough House—Slough rhymes with cow—is where Britain’s MI5 sends intelligence officers it doesn’t want but won’t fire, in hope that the sheer drudgery of their assignments, combined with the dreadfulness of their boss, will lead those agents to quit. Some do. The ones who stick around are called “slow horses,” hence the title of this book. Slow Horses opens with MI5 officer River Cartwright tracking a suspected terrorist through King’s Cross, one of Lond’s major railway stations. Unfortunately, the terrorist detonates a suicide vest before he can be apprehended, killing scores and causing millions in damage, billions in lost tourism revenue. Just not in reality. The entire episode was a training episode taking place at King’s Cross. Yes, thousands of commuters were actually evacuated from the station, but other than that, no harm, no foul—except that Cartwright gets sent down to Slough House for crashing King’s Cross. There, we might other denizens of this realm, which is governed by the rude, crude Cold War spymaster Jackson Lamb, who inherited his dominion for reasons that become clear only later in the novel. The plot of Slow Horses centers on the kidnapping of a British subject, though by whom and for what reason is not immediately apparent. All that is known is that the kidnappers will decapitate him in 48 hours. Everyone naturally expects Muslim terrorists. But here’s the thing: the victim is Muslim, but the terrorists are not. With everyone’s assumptions turned upside down, MI5 has the job of finding the victim before the kidnappers separate his head from his shoulders. Then Slough House gets dragged into the mess in more ways than one, putting them in the crosshairs. The only solution? The slow horses need to outrace the Park—that is, Regent’s Park, where MI5 is headquartered—before they get stabbed in the back. Slow Horses is the first in a series of novels by Mick Herron that focus on Slough House. It is a brilliant introduction to the characters and the series, and its plots are filled with enough twists to induce motion sickness. It’s a page-turner that keeps you in suspense to the end, marveling at the depths of deception spies are capable of. The dialogue is razor sharp. And the characters—especially Jackson Lamb—are sharply and hilariously drawn. So, five stars from me. Read this book, then keep reading the entire series! Review: Terrific little spy game book with a great character - Concise and compact, this stuffs a lot of plot, action and a great cast of characters into a surprisingly short book. It moves fast and jumps around, mostly in an endearing way (but see the last paragraph). The characters shine through anyway, especially Jackson Lamb. The twists and turns are great and the arrogance of the powerful is sort of classic here. If you've seen the brilliant TV series, this is still worth a read, even though the series Season 1 is rather close to this direct-line plot, which often seems perfectly written for the screen. It is easy to see Gary Oldman speaking when Jackson Lamb is on the page here. The TV version admittedly does make this book a lot less essential. It's common for readers to say "The book is better," but I don't think that is true here. The TV series is notably more fleshed out (while remaining faithful to the book and characters) and frankly more interesting, given how good the cast is and the length of time they have to work. They bring this book to life in a way this short book can't quite equal. If I had a quibble, it related less to the book--so, I'm not dinging another star--and more to the Kindle formatting of the book. As noted, it moves around fast. There are quick cuts within chapters, minor scene changes, that are not set off in any way. For example, there aren't caps beginning a new segment. (Some major cuts/scene changes have caps at the beginning of the new segment, but these quicker cuts do not.) Nor for these quick cuts do they use characters to space things out (like ##, whatever and so on). They just make a routine line break of no consequence--not even a double line break--and are then onto the next character's short scene. For example, on page 198 of my Kindle edition (as displayed on my phone) the last line of a conversation between Lamb and Taverner is: "How could this get worse?" Line break. The next sentence is: "'Because it's got to be stopped,' Hobden said." If anything, that cut gives a clue since Hobden is not part of the Lamb-Taverner conversation, but it at first looks like it is part of that conversation. Having to re-orient so quickly as the text blends into one scene after another is a little disorienting. Some formatting help would be nice. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #3,626 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #17 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books) #18 in Espionage Thrillers (Books) #41 in Political Thrillers (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 39,145 Reviews | ## Images ![Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/9103LVU2OlL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Great Start to a Fantastic Series *by G***D on August 30, 2023* Slough House—Slough rhymes with cow—is where Britain’s MI5 sends intelligence officers it doesn’t want but won’t fire, in hope that the sheer drudgery of their assignments, combined with the dreadfulness of their boss, will lead those agents to quit. Some do. The ones who stick around are called “slow horses,” hence the title of this book. Slow Horses opens with MI5 officer River Cartwright tracking a suspected terrorist through King’s Cross, one of Lond’s major railway stations. Unfortunately, the terrorist detonates a suicide vest before he can be apprehended, killing scores and causing millions in damage, billions in lost tourism revenue. Just not in reality. The entire episode was a training episode taking place at King’s Cross. Yes, thousands of commuters were actually evacuated from the station, but other than that, no harm, no foul—except that Cartwright gets sent down to Slough House for crashing King’s Cross. There, we might other denizens of this realm, which is governed by the rude, crude Cold War spymaster Jackson Lamb, who inherited his dominion for reasons that become clear only later in the novel. The plot of Slow Horses centers on the kidnapping of a British subject, though by whom and for what reason is not immediately apparent. All that is known is that the kidnappers will decapitate him in 48 hours. Everyone naturally expects Muslim terrorists. But here’s the thing: the victim is Muslim, but the terrorists are not. With everyone’s assumptions turned upside down, MI5 has the job of finding the victim before the kidnappers separate his head from his shoulders. Then Slough House gets dragged into the mess in more ways than one, putting them in the crosshairs. The only solution? The slow horses need to outrace the Park—that is, Regent’s Park, where MI5 is headquartered—before they get stabbed in the back. Slow Horses is the first in a series of novels by Mick Herron that focus on Slough House. It is a brilliant introduction to the characters and the series, and its plots are filled with enough twists to induce motion sickness. It’s a page-turner that keeps you in suspense to the end, marveling at the depths of deception spies are capable of. The dialogue is razor sharp. And the characters—especially Jackson Lamb—are sharply and hilariously drawn. So, five stars from me. Read this book, then keep reading the entire series! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Terrific little spy game book with a great character *by M***E on May 6, 2024* Concise and compact, this stuffs a lot of plot, action and a great cast of characters into a surprisingly short book. It moves fast and jumps around, mostly in an endearing way (but see the last paragraph). The characters shine through anyway, especially Jackson Lamb. The twists and turns are great and the arrogance of the powerful is sort of classic here. If you've seen the brilliant TV series, this is still worth a read, even though the series Season 1 is rather close to this direct-line plot, which often seems perfectly written for the screen. It is easy to see Gary Oldman speaking when Jackson Lamb is on the page here. The TV version admittedly does make this book a lot less essential. It's common for readers to say "The book is better," but I don't think that is true here. The TV series is notably more fleshed out (while remaining faithful to the book and characters) and frankly more interesting, given how good the cast is and the length of time they have to work. They bring this book to life in a way this short book can't quite equal. If I had a quibble, it related less to the book--so, I'm not dinging another star--and more to the Kindle formatting of the book. As noted, it moves around fast. There are quick cuts within chapters, minor scene changes, that are not set off in any way. For example, there aren't caps beginning a new segment. (Some major cuts/scene changes have caps at the beginning of the new segment, but these quicker cuts do not.) Nor for these quick cuts do they use characters to space things out (like ##, whatever and so on). They just make a routine line break of no consequence--not even a double line break--and are then onto the next character's short scene. For example, on page 198 of my Kindle edition (as displayed on my phone) the last line of a conversation between Lamb and Taverner is: "How could this get worse?" Line break. The next sentence is: "'Because it's got to be stopped,' Hobden said." If anything, that cut gives a clue since Hobden is not part of the Lamb-Taverner conversation, but it at first looks like it is part of that conversation. Having to re-orient so quickly as the text blends into one scene after another is a little disorienting. Some formatting help would be nice. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ First book in British spy series is witty and entertaining *by K***Y on April 6, 2021* Having read the latest book in this spy series, I went back to read the first to see if it was as enjoyable. The answer is yes. This first book introduces the reader to a cast of characters, most of them British spies (MI5) who have been sidelined for various mistakes they made in field operations. They have been relegated to Slough House, a run-down building compared to the other agents’ lodgings in Regent’s Park. Jackson Lamb is the head of the Slough House group, derisively known as the “slow horses.” Lamb is opposed to personal hygiene and is challenging to get along with. He is, however, a formidable spy. His team gets the clerical drudgery work. All his group yearns to be back in action in the field and to be taken seriously. River Cartwright is a relatively new team member. He arrived at Slough House after a professional rival sabotaged an assignment he was running. Cartwright was blamed. His latest task has been to collect the household trash of a retired investigative journalist, Robert Hobden. Cartwright upends the garbage in his office, rooting through eggshells, coffee grounds, vegetable scraps, and used tissues to find clues. Of what, he’s not sure. Lamb wasn’t specific. His attractive officemate, Sid, however, has bested him by copying a flash drive of Hobden’s computer files. Cartwright is both maddened and energized. Then Lamb sends him to deliver Sid’s prize to his nemesis at Regent’s Park, the one who got him sent to Slough House. He is not well pleased. Meanwhile, a critical situation is developing that has British intelligence’s attention. A boy named Hassan Ahmed has been abducted off the street on his way to a comedy club. In a live feed, the kidnappers show Ahmed bound to a chair and state they will behead Ahmed in 48 hours. No other information is given. Another party listening to the live feed is Robert Hobden, whose journalistic instincts kick in, and he begins chasing the story. He has inside information. Cartwright and Sid are on Hobden’s trail, sure that he has information that could help their efforts. While they watch Hobden, intruders break into Hobden’s apartment. The two agents move into action. One of them is shot and doesn’t get up. In the chaos that follows, Lamb and his team start looking much closer to home rather than at an unknown terrorist or neo-fascist group. The author, Mick Herron, has a unique writing style that is both sharply witty and observant of human weaknesses. He offers a fast-paced plot and fleshed-out POV characters packaged with a generous dollop of British humor. If you’re looking for a supremely entertaining spy story, you need to read this one. ## Frequently Bought Together - Slow Horses (Deluxe Edition) (Slough House) - Dead Lions (Slough House) - Real Tigers (Slough House) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/319622119-slow-horses-deluxe-edition-slough-house](https://www.desertcart.com.ar/products/319622119-slow-horses-deluxe-edition-slough-house) --- *Product available on Desertcart Argentina* *Store origin: AR* *Last updated: 2026-09-27*