Slough House is known among British spies as the bottom-of-the-barrel, punishment-assignment office for those who have royally screwed up in the more legitimate spy offices. But it seems that someone is tailing the current members of Slough House and killing off what former members still survive. It's possible that these actions are retaliation for the assassination of a Russian spy in Moscow, but why would anyone go after the bottom of the barrel? Throw in some alt-right agitators and some questionable back-office dealings with the media, and we've got a simmering stew that's ready to boil over.
Slough House (both the book and the office) is full of...oh, let's go with "vibrant"...characters, and the plot, once you get into it, is wonderfully topical and twisty. But this is the seventh book in a series, which is definitely not the point to jump in. If you do that (like I did), you'll spend the first 75 pages or so flailing around in your attempt to figure out who's who and guess at backstories. Learn from my mistake and start with book one, Slow Horses.
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