Standing by the Wall - A Slough House Interlude - Mick Herron

Category: Adults, Crime, Humor, Short Story
Language: English
Keywords: Slough House Slow Horses

Written by Mick Herron
Read by Sean Barrett
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

This is only a single novella ‘Standing by the wall’, not the similar titled collection of novellas which includes this novella, but this one is read by Sean Barrrett!

SUMMARY

Here in Slough House, the intelligence service’s home for inept spies, it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.

Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles performed, and he’s always been Jackson Lamb’s Number Two. So when Lamb has a photograph that needs doctoring, it’s Ho he entrusts with the task. Christmas is a time for memories, but Lamb doesn’t do memories - or so he says. But what is it about the photo that makes him want to alter it? How would the slow horses cope if Roddy Ho didn’t exist? And most importantly of all, are the team having Christmas drinks, and if so, where?

Standing by the Wall offers a glimpse into the kind of seasonal merriment you might expect at Slough House, where the boss generally marks the festive season with an increase in hostilities. But then, this is the secret service, not Secret Santa. And the slow horses aren’t here to enjoy themselves.