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''Standing by the Wall'' is a 2022 novella by Creator/MickHerron, a spy story connected to his Literature/JacksonLamb "Slough House" novels. It's described as "a Slough House interlude".
Slough House is where British security service [=MI6=] sends its unwanted staff. The ones who are inconvenient, incompetent or unreliable, but can't simply be fired. Once assigned there, under the command of embittered Cold War veteran Jackson Lamb, they're mocked and given pointless tasks until they resign, or retire.
Slough House is where British security service [=MI6=] sends its unwanted staff. The ones who are inconvenient, incompetent or unreliable, but can't simply be fired. Once assigned there, under the command of embittered Cold War veteran Jackson Lamb, they're mocked and given pointless tasks until they resign, or retire.
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''Standing by the Wall'' is a 2022 novella by Creator/MickHerron, a spy story connected to his Literature/JacksonLamb "Slough House" novels. It's described as "a Slough House interlude".
Slough House is where British security service [=MI6=] sends its unwanted staff. The ones who are inconvenient, incompetent or unreliable, but can't simply be fired. Once assigned there, under the command of embittered Cold War veteran Jackson Lamb, they're mocked and given pointless tasks until they resign, or retire.
Slough House is not a happy place. And especially not at Christmas.
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* BreatherEpisode: There's no violence and none of Lamb's Slow Horses are injured or killed. Given the cast turnover of previous novels, it feels like a moment of calm between the storms. Even Herron's previous novellas set in TheVerse, the John Bachelor series, have tended to involve deaths or some level of brutality.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:River Cartwright, who was poisoned in a previous book and completely absent from the most recent one, ''Literature/BadActors'', is slowly recovering and returns to visit Slough House. ''Bad Actors'' left his recovery very much in doubt]].
* SequelHook: The ending leads into Herron's novel [[spoiler:''Literature/TheSecretHours'' (not yet released when ''Standing by the Wall'' was published) revealing that it's part of TheVerse after all. Up to this point, pre-release publicity had suggested that ''The Secret Hours'' was a standalone novel]].
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Slough House is where British security service [=MI6=] sends its unwanted staff. The ones who are inconvenient, incompetent or unreliable, but can't simply be fired. Once assigned there, under the command of embittered Cold War veteran Jackson Lamb, they're mocked and given pointless tasks until they resign, or retire.
Slough House is not a happy place. And especially not at Christmas.
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* BreatherEpisode: There's no violence and none of Lamb's Slow Horses are injured or killed. Given the cast turnover of previous novels, it feels like a moment of calm between the storms. Even Herron's previous novellas set in TheVerse, the John Bachelor series, have tended to involve deaths or some level of brutality.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:River Cartwright, who was poisoned in a previous book and completely absent from the most recent one, ''Literature/BadActors'', is slowly recovering and returns to visit Slough House. ''Bad Actors'' left his recovery very much in doubt]].
* SequelHook: The ending leads into Herron's novel [[spoiler:''Literature/TheSecretHours'' (not yet released when ''Standing by the Wall'' was published) revealing that it's part of TheVerse after all. Up to this point, pre-release publicity had suggested that ''The Secret Hours'' was a standalone novel]].
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