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    Joe Country
    Joe Country
    Joe Country
    Audiobook11 hours

    Joe Country

    Written by Mick Herron

    Narrated by Gerard Doyle

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die.

    In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced MI5 spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.

    And with winter taking its grip, Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can’t ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends his agents out to even the score.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJun 11, 2019
    ISBN9781980027089
    Joe Country

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    • 4/5
      Typical Slough House, typical Mick Herron. Black humour which is sometimes laugh out loud, page-turning plot, vivid prose without superfluous detail, brilliant characters, what more could you want? Except I wish he'd stop killing off characters that I really quite like!
    • 5/5
      Fantastic! Really captivating and peppered with black humour. The ending makes you grab the next book in series immediately.
    • 2/5
      Great book, Sean Barrett is a better narrator. No real variation in character voices & Lamb isn’t a Scouser!
    • 4/5
      The body count grows, including some people we might have liked. Again someone is coming after Lamb's joes and he won't stand for it.
    • 5/5
      The latest chapter in the Slow Horses series by Mick Herron. Ive written about the others in the series but was under the impression that the series was finished. Finding another book was like discovering that bar of chocolate in the back of the cupboard hidden by the cereal boxes.

      I devoured it with relish.

      If you like action/drama/spy type stuff you really should read this series, it’s one of the few that maintain their quality from the beginning and even though the scenery remains the same the stories never fail to carry you along until you realise you are running out of pages and really, really, want there to be more. Absolutely Brilliant. Thanks Mick Herron
    • 3/5
      Readable, but I've read too much Herron lately, and it has all become too similar. This book has too much action. Maybe the highlights are Herron's descriptions of the weather. > No more snow had fallen. A thin grey rain, instead, swept the city, and the drains swam with excess run-off, and mains burst with dull predictability. One of these was not far from Slough House, and made a lagoon of a junction, in lieu of fixing which a team of council-liveried characters had erected a roadblock of sandbags and bollards, ensuring that traffic was reduced to a single-lane nightmare, before going off on their summer holidays.
    • 5/5
      'Joe' in this case is slang for an agent. This book, the sixth and latest (but not last) of the series is set in Slough House, the place where the British secret service discards its rejects, 'joes' who screwed up in some way. Some of them were set up, but it doesn't matter. Their boss, Jackson Lamb, is a thoroughly unlikeable character, who is also compellingly watchable. The book opens with a scene in which two of Lamb's 'joes' are killed -- but we don't know which two. As and I others have pointed out, Herron is not strong on plot. But he is fantastic with characterisation, and Slough House is full of characters. The next book in the series is not due out until February 2021, which is a good thing because otherwise I'd be reading it right now.
    • 5/5
      The inimitable Jackson Lamb is back one again, as cruel, repulsive and entertaining as ever. This is the sixth novel to feature Lamb and his ‘slow horses’. Lamb’s domain, Slough House, is a form of purgatory for disgraced intelligence officers who have compromised their careers so gravely that they can no longer be trusted in the front line of espionage. Lamb himself has clearly had experience in the field, but we have not yet discovered what he did that had him side-lined as manager of the Slough House contingent.They are a mixed bunch. Louisa Guy had made an error of judgement that resulted in a consignment of arms reaching the black market, while River Cartwright had been blamed for a training exercise going wrong which resulted in Kings Cross Station being taken out of commission during the rush hour. Catherine Standish is middle aged and a recovering alcoholic, and had been personal assistant to a previous head of the Service who, it turned out had been a traitor who had leaked intelligence to the Russians throughout his career. Unaware of, and uninvolved in, his treachery, she is unfortunately tainted by collateral damage, so has also been cast into the outer darkness of Slough House. Although disgraced and disgruntled, the three of them are, however, relatively sound of mind, which is more than can be said for all of their colleagues. After a brief period of self-imposed abstinence, Shirley Dander has resumed her recreational drug abuse, and has significant anger management issues. J K Coe seldom speaks but has shown himself to have psychopathic tendencies, manifested in the previous novel when he used a rifle to so hot a terrorist at point blank range. Most despised of all, however, is Roderick Ho: a genius when working on his computer but utterly self-deluded and rampantly dysfunctional in any other context. As this novel opens they have been joined by Lech Wicinski. No explanation has been given for his sudden appearance at Slough House, but even Ho, the ultimate computer hacker, has been unable to access his personnel file.There are, as usual, multiple plot lines, involving the search for a teenage boy who may have witnessed something untoward, a rogue former CIA agent on manoeuvres with a coterie of mercenaries, and various political intrigues involving Diana Taverner, Acting Head of Service, and her bosses (past and present) in Westminster. As always, Herron manages the various storylines impeccably, interweaving them in an elaborate tapestry. Jackson Lamb is a marvellous creation: foul mouthed, physically grotesque and relentlessly flatulent, but also curiously protective of his ‘slow horses’. He seldom misses an opportunity to belittle them in the most merciless fashion, but that is a prerogative reserve entirely to himself – woe betide anyone who dares to mess with them without his assent.Herron has mastered the knack of delivering novels that combine watertight espionage plots with trenchant humour. This book is slightly darker than its predecessors, but still works admirably on all levels.
    • 4/5
      Joe Country is the sixth Slough House novel. I would definitely recommend reading them in order, but if you’re coming to them for the first time, this is the setup.The staff of Slough House are all employees of the intelligence services who have messed up in one way or another. Rather than being sacked, they are exiled from active service and the headquarters at Regents Park.They are condemned to do mind-numbing tasks in a dank, dark building, under the supervision of Jackson Lamb, a former agent who appears offensive and incompetent but retains a mysterious aura of invincibility. Somehow, despite their remit, the so-called ‘slow horses’ find themselves intermittently having to behave almost like real agents, but with none of the supporting infrastructure.Herron has kept things fresh throughout the series by bringing in new people to replace those that leave (no spoilers but a stint at Slough House doesn’t generally end in glittering promotion or quiet retirement). In Joe Country, a new member has joined the team, and the reasons for his disgrace gradually emerge and are fully exploited by Jackson Lamb.Meanwhile Diana Taverner, the head of the service at Regents Park, is at the heart of political intrigue, sparring with a disgraced former politician with fluffy blond hair and a ruthless eye for self-aggrandisement. (The previous novel, London Rules, dealt head-on and hilariously with our current sorry political landscape.)However, the main focus is on the pasts of the Slow Horses. Disruption at an agent’s funeral and the ringing of a dead colleague’s phone spark them into action. The prologue sets up the tension by giving you a hint of how it ends – that two of their team will die as they confront a dangerous enemy in rural Wales.I should have loved this, but didn’t quite, and I’m not sure why. I don’t think it’s less well written than the others, and it’s still a good read. Perhaps, despite the changing cast of characters, those who remain are a little too familiar. Bringing up relationships which featured in earlier novels increased the sense of déjà vu. I also worry that Jackson Lamb, with his farts and his offensive comments and his uncanny omniscience, is edging close to becoming a caricature of himself.There is a hint at the end of this book that Slough House might be about to get a shake-up. I’m interested to see where this series goes next.*I received a copy of Joe Country from the publisher via Netgalley.
    • 3/5
      I was disappointed with this one. There was a fair amount of the usual humour I enjoy so much, but the plot seemed thin and bitty, and I got tired of endless snow and barns and sheds and snow. The fact that four assassins were sent after a teenage boy, failed miserably to neutralize him, and then their employer was happy to let things rest once the boy promised to keep his mouth shut, seemed unlikely to the point of being ridiculous.The last conversation between Judd and Taverner read like an essay and was a blatant set-up for a subsequent novel, which left me not terribly enthusiastic about reading it.
    • 5/5
      Uh…good evening, officer. What? the neighbours heard screaming? Oh sorry, see I just got my hands on the latest Mick Herron. My bad.C’mon, I can’t be the only one celebrating.This is one of my all time favourite series, an annual no-brainer purchase. Last year Herron gave us a shortie called The Drop & that story line plus a couple of the characters are woven into this outing.It all begins with a prologue that will have fans on edge. There are bodies in a barn in Wales. And rumour has it some agents from Slough House were involved. Hold that thought. You’re about to find out how some Slow Horses ended up dashing through the snow in the Welsh countryside. As usual there are multiple story lines on the go. River Cartwright is finally burying his grandfather. The old spook’s funeral is a solemn & covert affair. Right up until….well, let me just point out Jackson Lamb & his crew are in attendance. Did you really expect normal? Louisa Guy is still mourning the death of fellow agent Min Harper. They had a relationship of sorts so when Min’s widow gets in touch to request they meet, Louisa’s not sure it’s a good idea. It seems their teenage son Lucas is missing & Min’s wife thinks the least Louisa can do is find him. Eventually she agrees & uses her contacts to track him to…Wales?Meanwhile over in Regents Part, Diana Taverner has a problem. Hannah Weiss is a double agent who infiltrated the German intelligence service for MI6. Not so long ago, things got a little messy & Lady Di cleaned up by “promoting” Lech Wicinski, a low level agent who got stuck in the middle. Yep, he now reports to Jackson Lamb. Even worse, he shares an office with Roddy Ho. Yeesh, talk about kicking someone when they’re down. All Lech can do is find those responsible for his spectacular fall from grace.As for Lamb, he’d have been happy to continue spending his days devising new ways to offend his merry band of misfits. But events at the funeral put that on hold. He’s finally got a chance for revenge on an old foe & some off-the-books digging reveals his prey is in….Wales? Huh. Must be getting a bit crowded over there.Once again I tried to slowly dole out the chapters & once again I failed. For me, these books are like potato chips. It’s impossible to have a little taste then put them away. After the prologue, this one slows down as the author sets the stage for everything to come. I love the way he makes Slough House another living, breathing character that quietly observes the poor souls who trudge through its door every day. There are many strands to the plot & he keeps them running smoothly until they inevitably intersect. Along the way you’re treated to action, intrigue, twists & laughs. No one does dry black humour quite like Herron & I’ve learned my lesson about reading his books in public. But on the upside, it turns out snorting & grinning like a loon ensures you get a seat to yourself on the train.Beneath the humour & zany antics are serious moments of grief & loss. This is an author who doesn’t shy away from killing off a beloved character & the tradition continues here. The ending makes it clear there’s a conspiracy in the works, one even Lamb may not survive. And so the wait for the next one begins & I swear I’ll read it slowly (sure).