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Lame horses

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Lame horses
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Herron's novels are "a funny, farcical, marvelously cynical caricature of politicians, functionaries, infighting, and the Big Game" (Booklist), and the "lame horses," aka the weaklings of Slough Tower, are defective counterintelligence agents punished "for addiction to drugs, alcohol, or debauchery; for intrigue and betrayal; for discontent and doubt; and for inexcusable missteps." Overseeing them is Jackson Lamb, "the Falstaff of our day" (Sunday Times) and "one of the most monstrous characters in modern literature" (Bernard Cornwell). But, as we know, there are no former "Contorsky", and every weakling, engaged in meaningless clerical work, dreams of justifying himself, to return to the operational work in Regent's Park. And when terrorists kidnap a teenager and threaten to cut off his head live on YouTube, the wimps are not going to sit idly by....
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