"I don't; I've never specifically stated it. But I've always felt, and I don't think I've stated this either, that it came into being with Jackson when it started, he says. Slough House was made for him, as it were, rather than him taking it over. I don't think it was around before he was. It's not something I've examined, but that's certainly my feeling about it. I may have made allusions to that. I've certainly never gone into any detail about it, says Herron."
"Jackson, of course, refers to Jackson Lamb, the brilliant, bilious spymaster who runs Slough House. Though his motives are often as murky as the foul air in his office, Lamb seems to be keeping the nation safe by burying his team in pointless paperwork and isolating them from actual spywork except when things have gotten so bleak that the Slow Horses can't possibly make things worse. Until they do."
Slough House likely began with Jackson Lamb and was created as his specific posting rather than as an existing unit. Slough House functions as MI5's career dead-end for screw-ups, ne'er-do-wells and unlucky spies, where personnel are buried in pointless paperwork and isolated from actual operations. The Slow Horses novels blend gripping espionage, office tensions and darkly funny prose while occasionally forcing the misfits into real missions. Clown Town introduces a team of older spies whose careers went awry before Slough House existed, eliminating any chance they would have been sent there.
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