Characters
Slough House 15
The slow horses, and the man who keeps them.
Jackson Lamb
protagonist · 78 chapters
River Cartwright
protagonist · 77 chapters
Louisa Guy
secondary · 71 chapters
Roderick Ho
secondary · 67 chapters
Catherine Standish
pov · 64 chapters
Shirley Dander
secondary · 57 chapters
Marcus Longridge
secondary · 41 chapters
JK Coe
secondary · 30 chapters
Min Harper
secondary · 28 chapters
Sid Baker
secondary · 16 chapters
Jed Moody
antagonist · 13 chapters
Lech Wicinski
pov · 12 chapters
Moira Tregorian
secondary · 9 chapters
Kay White
secondary · 8 chapters
Struan Loy
secondary · 8 chapters
The Dogs 4
Internal security: the people who search flats and collect you before dawn.
Emma Flyte
secondary · 29 chapters
Nick Duffy
secondary · 17 chapters
Devon Welles
secondary · 12 chapters
Sam Chapman
minor · 10 chapters
Regent's Park 14
The Service proper — the Desks, Records, Limitations, and the retired officers who never quite leave.
Diana Taverner
antagonist · 55 chapters
David Cartwright
secondary · 30 chapters
Claude Whelan
secondary · 26 chapters
James Webb
antagonist · 18 chapters
Ingrid Tearney
secondary · 17 chapters
Molly Doran
secondary · 14 chapters
Charles Partner
secondary · 13 chapters
Josie
minor · 6 chapters
Richard Pynne
secondary · 6 chapters
Giti Rahman
minor · 4 chapters
Hannah Weiss
secondary · 4 chapters
Roger Barrowby
secondary · 3 chapters
Richard Bough
secondary · 2 chapters
Douglas
minor
Whitehall 4
The politicians the Service answers to.
Peter Judd
antagonist · 14 chapters
Dennis Gimball
secondary · 13 chapters
Zafar Jaffrey
secondary · 10 chapters
Oliver Nash
secondary · 7 chapters
Adversaries 28
The people the novels are set against.
Frank Harkness
antagonist · 22 chapters
Sean Donovan
antagonist · 11 chapters
Kim Park
secondary · 11 chapters
Patrice
antagonist · 9 chapters
Danny
antagonist · 8 chapters
Shin
antagonist · 8 chapters
Alan Black
antagonist · 7 chapters
Arkady Pashkin
antagonist · 7 chapters
Piotr
secondary · 7 chapters
Ben Traynor
antagonist · 7 chapters
Bertrand
secondary · 7 chapters
An
antagonist · 7 chapters
Curly
antagonist · 6 chapters
Larry
antagonist · 6 chapters
Kyril
secondary · 6 chapters
Anton Moser
secondary · 6 chapters
Lars Becker
secondary · 6 chapters
Seb
antagonist · 5 chapters
Chris
minor · 5 chapters
Cyril Dupont
minor · 5 chapters
Martin Kreutzmer
secondary · 5 chapters
Mahmud Gul
secondary · 4 chapters
Nikolai Katinsky
antagonist · 4 chapters
Yves
minor · 4 chapters
Joon
minor · 4 chapters
Karim Jaffrey
minor · 4 chapters
Reginald Blaine
minor · 4 chapters
Sylvester Monteith
antagonist · 3 chapters
Civilians 14
Everyone else: villagers, hostages, journalists, and the ones the Service spends.
Hassan Ahmed
secondary · 14 chapters
Lucas Harper
minor · 12 chapters
Robert Hobden
secondary · 9 chapters
Dodie Gimball
secondary · 7 chapters
Craig Dunn
minor · 6 chapters
Tyson Bowman
secondary · 6 chapters
Clare Addison
minor · 5 chapters
Kelly Tropper
secondary · 4 chapters
Claire
minor · 4 chapters
Natasha Reverde
minor · 3 chapters
Isobel Dunstable
minor · 3 chapters
Alison Dunn
secondary · 2 chapters
Samit Chatterjee
minor · 2 chapters
Paul Lowell
minor · 1 chapters