London Rules Audiobook

The fifth entry in the CWA Gold Dagger-winning Slough House series featuring Jackson Lamb London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; from the PM's favorite Muslim, who's about to be elected mayor of the West Midlands, despite the dark secret he's hiding; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble. Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks. Over at Slough House, the MI5 satellite office for outcast and demoted spies, the agents are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. Plus someone is trying to kill Roddy Ho. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength-that of making a bad situation much, much worse.

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"On the one hand "London rules" gets more political than any of the previous installments in the series. It gets also more realistic when we learn that the misfits populating British circles of power are no more virtuos than the gang of disgraced spooks of Jackson Lamb. They are also sycophant and treacherous embodiments of the feudal privilage persiting in the weird British feudal democracy. This part of the storyline is believable and very engaging. The plot about an infiltration of the UK by the state-sponsored terrorists and the struggle of the slow horses to stop their efforts is more pulp-like entertainment. Still funny, but less rewarding all in all"

— Wojciech W.  (4 out of 5 stars)