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...Given the absence of the Slough House cast of misfits, the tone feels darker than before — less David Brent, more George Smiley....
...Slow Horses, an adaptation of Mick Herron’s novel about washed-up M15 agents, will debut on Apple TV on April 1....
...Though neither a James Bond-style action hero, nor a cerebral George Smiley type, Lamb — like many of the Slow Horses — is decent, courageous and intensely loyal....
...Mick Herron is the author of the Slough House series of spy thrillers...
...I tend to listen to thrillers on audio, and I would call out and highlight Mick Herron’s latest, Bad Actors. But this year I’ve been listening to Ulysses. Lilah RaptopoulosWow . . ....
...There are loud echoes here of Mick Herron’s Slough House series, where spies who have messed up are dumped in a ramshackle London station....
...“Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” and “Highway 61 Revisited” were given rollicking country and blues-rock renditions, driven by George Receli on drums and decorated by Donnie Herron on steel guitar....
...Tellingly, he didn’t even pick up a guitar during the whole gig, leaving the strings to Charlie Sexton, Stuart Kimbal and Donnie Herron....
...Charlie Sexton delivered deft but unshowy solos on guitar while steel guitarist Donnie Herron added a western twang....
...Jerry Herron, a writer and scholar at Detroit’s Wayne State University, likens journalists’ morbid delight at Detroit to that of Victorian travellers reaching Pompeii....
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