{"id":1674,"date":"2019-08-19T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2019-08-19T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T13:56:29","slug":"review-london-rules-by-mick-herron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-london-rules-by-mick-herron\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: London Rules, by Mick Herron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/londonrules-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1675\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>OK, I&#8217;ve said this before and I have to say it again: plot is not Mick Herron&#8217;s greatest strength.  In this book, the fifth in the Slough House series, a bunch of terrorists blow up some penguins, and the most significant murder is the result of an accident &#8212; by one of the heroes.  And I think Herron is running out of bad guys.  This time, it&#8217;s some inept North Koreans who&#8217;ve been living in England.  All that having been said, the book is great fun and tells the continuing story of Jackson Lamb and his &#8220;slow horses&#8221;.  You either enjoy listening to Lamb insult people in increasingly bizarre ways, or you don&#8217;t.  And Roderick Ho &#8212; or &#8220;the Rodster&#8221; as he is known by no one &#8212; is one of the great comic creations in literature.   I&#8217;ve already begun the sixth book of the series &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;ve said this before and I have to say it again: plot is not Mick Herron&#8217;s greatest strength. In this book, the fifth in the Slough House series, a bunch of terrorists blow up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}