000			01232nam a22001817a 4500
020			_a9781473621954
041			_aENG
082			_a823.92 _bHER
100			_aHerron Mick
245			_aSlow horses / _cMick Herron.
260			_aLondon : _bJohn Murray Publishers Ltd , _c2015.
300			_a345 pages ; _c20 cm.
520			_aShortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award Slough House is a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a service file on a train, say, blown a surveillance, or become drunkenly unreliable. They're the service's poor relations - the slow horses - and most bitter among them is River Cartwright, whose days are spent transcribing mobile phone conversations. But when a young man is abducted, and his kidnappers threaten to behead him live on the internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. But is the victim who he first appears to be? And what's the kidnappers' connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone involved has their own agenda ...
650			_aEnglish fiction.
650			_a modern English fiction
650			_aworks of fiction in the thriller genre
942			_2ddc _cBK
999			_c23632 _d23632