6/6/2023 0 Comments Slow horses and dead lionsI wasn’t convinced that Gary Oldman’s greasy slob would be quite upper crust enough for Lamb – whom I envisioned after reading the books as more fallen angel than sarf London thug – but Oldman has inhabited the role so thoroughly, down to the last fart, that it’s hard to imagine another actor playing it. He's the gangmaster of the bunch of shop-worn spies known as "slow horses" who have been sent to the career graveyard of Slough House, a squalid building near London’s Barbican Centre. That’s largely down to the indelible characters Herron has created, led by the monstrously flatulent Jackson Lamb. Maybe so, but to devotees of both books and dramatisation they are still uniquely pleasurable. Predictably, the literary critical backlash has already begun: the books are formulaic, the magic doesn’t last, etc. Mick Herron is now preparing the ninth Slough House novel for publication in 2023 (there have also been three related novellas in the sequence), while the TV series is just embarking on volume two, Dead Lions.
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