so so much fun but my god. I was getting really bad sexist vibes this whole book. some of the ways he described the women, needlessly commenting on their appearances from their own pov.... Ew. I understand why Roddy, for example, would say Shit Like That, but not Catherine or Diana.

everything else here was pretty good though, just that this brought down the whole experience. the show really one upped this actually! I feel like giving the slow horses "the win" at the end closes it off nicely - I understand that the point in the book here is to give Hassan his moment and point to that the slow horses really ARE useless but I prefer the narrative that no one is, actually, and with enough good heart and dubious hacking skills you can get there. also the scene with Min, Louisa, and the helicopter was super cool, so it was kinda disappointing not to have it.