Joe Country

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Call Number: Mystery / Herron, Mick, Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / Espionage / Herron, Mick
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Herron, Mick	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / Thriller / Espionage / Herron, Mick	4-week checkout	On Shelf

"If Spook Street is where spies live, Joe Country is where they go to die. In Slough House, the London outpost for disgraced spies MI5, 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, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. Meanwhile, in Regent's Park, Diana Taverner's tenure as First Desk is running into difficulties. If she's going to make the Service fit for purpose, she might have to make deals with a familiar old devil. 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 breaks cover at last, Lamb sends the slow horses out to even the score"-- Provided by publisher.

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this is what memory is... submitted by camelsamba on June 26, 2021, 11:16pm Well! That ending is certainly ambiguous. Surely this isn't the end of the series...

One of the things I like about this series is that you have a band of misfits who manage to rise above everyone's expectations and pull off unexpected exploits. None of the main characters are fully lovable (and some veer rather close to despicable), but you root for them anyway. There is also a fair amount of poetic language, especially the intros and (usually) endings. In this book, the thing wandering around Slough House at the beginning and end is memory - except at the very end, the digital memory of all the slow horses has vanished. What does it mean??

"This is what memory is: an abiding awareness that some things have vanished. And this is what consciousness is: the knowledge that more absences will come."