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* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler: The 'cicada' families who moved to Upshott, Soviet sleeper agents who've been waiting to be reactivated. At least in theory. In practice, they've [[BecomingTheMask Become The Mask]]

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* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler: The 'cicada' families who moved to Upshott, Soviet sleeper agents who've been waiting to be reactivated. ]] At least in theory. In practice, [[spoiler: they've [[BecomingTheMask Become The Mask]]Mask]]]]
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The book is also being adapted into the second season of the ''Series/SlowHorses'' series.

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The book is also being was adapted into the second season of the ''Series/SlowHorses'' series.

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* AssholeVictim: It’s hard to get too sad when FakeUltimateHero [[spoiler:’Spider’ Webb]] is shot by [[spoiler: Pashkin’s thugs]].



* KickTheSonOfABitch: It’s hard to get too sad when [[spoiler:’Spider’ Webb]] is shot by [[spoiler: Pashkin’s thugs]]. On the other hand, they didn’t know about the things he’d previously done.
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The book is also being adapted into the second season of the ''Series/SlowHorses'' series.
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* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler: The families who moved to Upshott]]

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* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler: The 'cicada' families who moved to Upshott]]Upshott, Soviet sleeper agents who've been waiting to be reactivated. At least in theory. In practice, they've [[BecomingTheMask Become The Mask]]
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* PlotTriggeringDeath: Dickie Bow, as he’s murdered in the first few pages. And it’s the investigation of his supposedly accidental death that drives one half of the plot.
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A retired spy ends up dead on a bus, and nobody except Jackson Lamb seems to care.

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A retired spy ends up dead dies on a bus, in questionable circumstances, and nobody except Jackson Lamb seems to care.
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* InspirationNod: Louisa starts swearing about ''Film/DieHard'' when she realises what’s really going on with [[spoiler:Pashkin]].
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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: We don’t see it, but Nick Duffy seems to use this approach on [[spoiler:Rebecca Mitchell]]. His knuckles are scraped red when he reappears to brief Lamb.
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* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: Subverted. [[spoiler: Min Harper is trailing Pashkin’s guards when they spot him and he suddenly feels cold steel against his neck]]. [[spoiler: It’s Kyril’s cigarette lighter]].
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-> "''A bogeyman. Smoke and a whisper, nothing more. If information was hard currency, the best we had on Popov was an IOU. Nobody ever laid a finger on him, and that was because he didn’t exist''”

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-> "''A bogeyman. Smoke and a whisper, nothing more. If information was hard currency, the best we had on Popov was an IOU. Nobody ever laid a finger on him, and that was because he didn’t exist''”exist.''”
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->— '''David Cartright'''

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->— '''David Cartright'''
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-> "''A bogeyman. Smoke and a whisper, nothing more. If information was hard currency, the best we had on Popov was an IOU. Nobody ever laid a finger on him, and that was because he didn’t exist''”
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A retired spy ends up dead on a bus, and nobody except Jackson Lamb seems to care.

But with [=MI5=] under close political scrutiny, his Slough House team is a little depleted, with two of them ‘unofficially’ on loan to look after a visiting Russian oligarch.

Things don’t seem to add up. And perhaps a ghost story from the last days of the cold war has resurfaced to haunt England.
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** Roger Barrowby, who was technically in charge when [[the London incident]] takes place, is left with no option but to accept the blame and resign.

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** Roger Barrowby, who was technically in charge when [[the [[spoiler: the London incident]] takes place, is left with no option but to accept the blame and resign.

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