Had the fifth Long Walk of the week:
…and when I returned home, I finished reading ‘London Rules’:
…which is the fifth in the Slough House/Slow Horses series and it’s an action-packed story, with many cinematic set-pieces. In a nutshell a piece of old UK Secret Service business comes back to bite the country (and the Service) on the arse. With a streak of Brexit commentary, which one wishes had come to pass, and a nice explanation of how modern newspaper columnist work (or at least some of them). There’s also plenty of humour and some emotional growth for a few of our favourite Slow Horses (which makes you worry about what is going to happen to them later on in the story and the series). A really fun read, where you’re going ‘just a few more pages and then I’ll turn in’ but you ignore that because you want to know what happens next. 9/10.
…and for info the London Rules, as described in the book, are:
Rule One: Cover your arse
Rule Two: Force others to take you on your own terms. And if they didn’t like it, stay in their face until they did.
Rule Three: Build your walls high, and the order in which you chucked your people over them was in inverse proportion to their usefulness.
…pretty useful rules for everyday life as well as life as a Joe…
…the postman had also delivered ’Wicked Things’ #1, both of the variant covers, which I’ll think to save and read all six issues in one go (this was before the global shutdown, including Diamond Comics the only international distributor for comics):
…and I did today’s G2 Crossword:
…which ends the week on a high point as we only had to cheat on a twenty-sixth of the clues (one out of 26), I guess social distancing has its advantages (in giving us more time to spend on things)! The clue we missed was “22 down ‘Buddhist monk’ (4)”, and the answer is ‘Lama’, which I had thought off, but had dismissed as I thought it was the equivalent to an archbishop or pope or some equivalent top religious post, as in the Dali Lama, but it’s more general…
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