Randy’s Reviews > Joe Country > Status Update

Love this passage about Catherine, the recovering alcoholic: “Catherine was in a strange loose place, and rattled around, unanchored. And then the moment passed, though the taste at the back of her throat remained, as it likely always would. The taste she’d never forget, and would always be straining to remember. She blinked, and her vision blurred. She blinked again, and it returned.”🍷

A link between the new guy, Lech and John Bachelor! Love it when there’s a tie-in with a separate story! 🇬🇧🕵️‍♀️

“This was happening at Regent’s Park, which was not, as the crow flies, a huge distance from Slough House, but by any other metaphor was a lifetime away.”

Roddy Ho on the newest member of the Slow Horses: “…the dude looked undignified, stamping out. Gotta have respect for yourself, he thought, getting down on his knees by the waste bin.”

“Cities sleep with their lights on, as if they’re afraid of the dark.”