#slow horses books

[263adder]

Mick Herron - why do you keep making me fall in love with characters and then kill them off 2 books later 😭 Min was bad enough okay

[littledozerdraws]

river plsss 😭😭🙉

[johnnyspells]

RIVER CARTWRIGHT ● Slow Horses - Boardroom Politics - S02E05

[chaoticstabby]

Sooo, it's been four days, I've watched all three seasons and four episodes, and I'm slightly obsessed with this disaster of a man:

[snowfallnight]

[isthatacalzone]

been rewatching S4 and thinking about the fact when River was probably at his most terrified, trying to figure out why someone was trying to kill his grandfather and how to protect him, the logical conclusion he came to was Standish. Standish is safe. he can go to France and not be preoccupied with how his ailing grandfather is faring because Catherine Standish is looking after him.

and then I start thinking how proud Standish must have felt when River turned up at her door with the most important person in his life and said "please look after him". Catherine Standish, who for so long was seen as a risk because of her addiction - someone unreliable and not to be trusted, trusted with someone that precious. no wonder she took it so seriously when Lamb turned up on her doorstep. "River asked me to look after him", and by god was she going to

[mostlyghostie]

Very happy with how this one came out! Latest favourite books commission.

I’ve read more o these than any other commission I’ve done too (8, I haven’t read Brideshead Revisited or Love in the Time of Cholera yet)

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[waytoomanyhandgestures]

I’m reading Dead Lions (the second slow horses book) and there’s a bit where River is with his grandfather and it mentions that he only ever drinks whiskey with his grandfather. And then I was thinking about that scene at the end of the season 4 finale and River is drinking whiskey with Lamb and Lamb being River’s father figure is so precious to me

[wiseoldwine]

[keepthedelta]

river cartwright is the saddest wettest meow meow in MI5 history and he should have been pushed into the thames

[kagoutiss]

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[countessrivers]

I will say, as excellent as this season was, I'm a little disappointed that the show didn't include from the books:

Patrice, after kidnapping River and fucking him up a bit for trying to escape, telling concerned onlookers that River is his boyfriend and he's totally just having a panic attack because he's claustrophobic and can't handle public transport.

Patrice kissing River on the cheek goodbye as he goes off to murder his colleagues, and promising that they'll talk later (with the pretty strong undercurrent throughout the book that there was Something between Patrice and River's secret half-brother who he looks a lot alike)

and

Frank kissing River on the mouth before just fucking yeeting him into the Thames to buy himself time to escape and Louisa having to dive in and rescue him

[johnnyspells]

RIVER CARTWRIGHT & JAMES "SPIDER" WEBB ● Slow Horses S03E03

[the-greenfox]

Who else is sad we didn't get frank throwing river in the thames?? My one big gripe with season 4 and it's that this big wet cat of a man didn't get drenched :(

[snowfallnight]

My new fav photo of them, ty mama gisele 😭

[thebeigelunatics]

in 'real tigers' when lamb said to the kids after standish went missing, "i’m starting to think we should go on one of those team-bonding courses. though maybe we should wait till your mother hen’s back in the coop." and when he was grappling with river's fuck up at the park, "and while he could contemplate a future without river cartwright in it with a degree of equanimity, catherine standish would have plenty to say on the subject if she ever turned up. and lamb had learned long ago not to piss off whoever made your morning tea." well at least daddy lamb knows who actually runs slough house 😌