The Slow Horses series of books is always a good read, written in a style that is by now familiar. There is tension and excitement as events speed up, but the author is also not afraid of setting up some pieces in the background so you can watch them come into play much later (sometimes in subsequent books).
While I enjoyed this book as much as the others, you could feel that the author was trying hard to ramp up the clever lines (mainly from Jackson Lamb) to the point where it got a bit much. Almost as if were a dry humor competition.
A lot of the events from this book are taken from real headlines (around 2017) so there may be a risk of dating itself out of comprehension many years hence. But certainly that won’t be anything I’ll be worried about at the time.
I know this is fiction, but even with the realistic characters and events some stuff was a little far-fetched. Hopefully in the next books the author will take it down a notch and take a more measured (subtle?) approach.
Still, not a bad book in the series. Next I am reading An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green.
