He’s been called the John le Carre of our generation and now spy thriller writer Mick Herron is having books from his Slough House series turned into a TV drama starring Oscar winner Gary Oldman. Titled Slow Horses, it will air on Apple TV, starring Oldman as Jackson Lamb, an overweight, flatulent, boozing, politically incorrect but brilliant intelligence officer who ends up in MI5’s dumping ground because of his career-wrecking mistakes. The show will also star Kristin Scott Thomas and Jonathan Pryce. Mr Oldman won an Oscar nomination for his role as master spy George Smiley in the 2011 movie Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, an adaptation of John le Carre’s novel.
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