World & Setting
19 entries in the Slow Horses compendium.
The Ministry of Defence BuildingThe gleaming fortress of success where the elite operate, casting long shadows over the foThe GherkinThe gleaming fortress where elite spies work, casting a long shadow over the forgotten ageBletchley ParkThe silent war's birthplace, echoing through modern spycraft.The British Library Reading RoomA cathedral of silence where secrets are read between the lines.Heathrow Terminal 5Where the polished veneer of travel hides the shadowy reality of espionage.Section ThreeWhere MI5 sends its failures—and where the real work quietly begins.MI5The Service that keeps the country safe, one disgraced officer at a time.SloughWhere MI5 sends the agents it can't be bothered to fire.Vauxhall CrossThe glass tower where MI5 runs the country's secrets—and the wall Slough House can never cMI6The machine that eats its own, one career at a time.GCHQThe ear that never sleeps, the code that never breaks — unless someone in Slough needs it FSBThe patient, shadowed hand of a rival state, always three moves ahead of Slough House.MSSThe sharp, unapologetic shadow that MI5 can't quite shake off.MOISThe shadow above the shadow, where MI5's worst secrets go to be buried and unburied.LondonA city of secrets where the slow horses still run, if you let them.MITThe Army's spook shop, where a colonel's handshake means more than a briefing.MoscowThe city that writes the orders the Horses are always too late to stop.BeijingThe patient capital from which the world's most methodical adversary plans its next quiet TehranA city of minarets and signals where MI5's longest leash ends and the Horses' longest shad
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