Oh My Giddy Aunt, really enjoyed this second book in the Slough House series of books, Nick Herron does a very subtle job oif embedding these characters, those who populate Slough House, and even those who torment them, in the readers conciousness so readily. I feel like I know them almost as much as I feel for them. Jackson Lamb and his...er,team feel like they are really out there somewhere. Dull, drab and dangerous to know. This one plays with the notion of "sleepers" and the notion that if you pretend to be a thing for too long you might find yourself becoming that thing. At times it felt like the most messed up episode of the Avengers, never written and even then I am just grasping for something to compare it too. When its not really like anything else, certainly not Le Carre.
But then, what is?
