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The second season of “Slow Horse” released a preview of a new spy and a new crisis. Slow Horse_Sina Entertainment_Sina.com

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The second season of “Slow Horse” released a preview of a new spy and a new crisis. Slow Horse_Sina Entertainment_Sina.com
“Slow Horse”

According to foreign media reports, the second season of the spy drama “Slow Horse” starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas released a preview, announcing that this year’s 12 Launched on Apple TV+ on May 2, “New Spy, New Crisis, Still That Jackson Lamb”.

Based on Mick Herron’s spy novel of the same name, the protagonists are a group of MI5 agents united by a common belief: They screw things up and will stop at nothing to find redemption. The first season aired on April 1 and has been booked for two seasons, with Jack Lowden, Olivia Cooke, Jonathan Pryce and others also starring.

Oldman plays Jackson Lamb, the brilliant but irascible leader of a group of spies who are banished from mainstream society for making mistakes and ultimately imprisoned at MI5’s Slough House.

Thomas plays Diana Taverner, an admirable senior MI5 officer.

Lowden plays River Cartwright, a gifted agent who is desperate to get out of Slough House.

Price plays River’s grandfather, David Cartwright, a retired MI5 agent.

Cook plays Sid Baker, a shrewd agent and River’s colleague.

(Meng Qing)

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MI6 October 25, 2022 - 8:43 pm

Mick Herron’s works are great and Slow Horses is magnificent because it is more realistic than Bond but why not read a real non-fiction thriller instead.

Beyond Enkription (intentionally misspelt) is a must read for espionage cognoscenti and the first stand-alone spy thriller in The Burlington Files autobiographical series by Bill Fairclough (MI6 codename JJ, aka Edward Burlington). It’s a raw and noir matter of fact pacy novel. Len Deighton and Mick Herron could be forgiven for thinking they co-wrote it. Coincidentally, a few critics have nicknamed its protagonist “a posh Harry Palmer.”

This elusive and enigmatic novel is a true story about a maverick accountant (Edward Burlington in Porter Williams International aka Bill Fairclough in Coopers & Lybrand now PwC in real life). In 1974 in London he began infiltrating organised crime gangs, unwittingly working for MI6. After some frenetic attempts on his life he was relocated to the Caribbean where, “eyes wide open” he was recruited by the CIA and headed for shark infested waters off Haiti.

If you’re an espionage cognoscente you’ll love this monumental book. In real life Bill was recruited by MI6’s unorthodox Colonel Alan Brooke Pemberton CVO MBE and thereafter they worked together on and off into the 1990s. Pemberton’s People included Roy Richards (Winston Churchill’s bodyguard), one eccentric British Brigadier (Peter ‘Scrubber’ Stewart-Richardson) who tried to join the Afghan Mujahideen, Peter Goss an SAS Colonel and JIC member involved in the Clockwork Orange Plot concerning Prime Minister Harold Wilson and even the infamous rogue Major Freddy Mace, who even highlighted his cat burgling and silent killing skills in his CV.

This epic is so real it made us wonder why bother reading espionage fiction when facts are so much more exhilarating. Atmospherically it’s reminiscent of Ted Lewis’ Get Carter of Michael Caine fame. If anyone ever makes a film based on Beyond Enkription they’ll only have themselves to blame if it doesn’t go down in history as a classic thriller … it’s the stuff memorable films are made of.

Whether you’re a le Carré connoisseur, a Deighton disciple, a Fleming fanatic, a Herron hireling or a Macintyre marauder, odds on once you are immersed in it you’ll read this titanic production twice. .For more detailed reviews visit the Reviews page on TheBurlingtonFiles website or see other independent reviews on your local Amazon website and check out Bill Fairclough’s background on the web.

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