Characters
Slough House 14
The slow horses, and the man who keeps them.
Jackson Lamb
protagonist · 52 chapters
River Cartwright
protagonist · 52 chapters
Catherine Standish
pov · 44 chapters
Louisa Guy
secondary · 44 chapters
Roderick Ho
secondary · 39 chapters
Shirley Dander
secondary · 32 chapters
Marcus Longridge
secondary · 28 chapters
Min Harper
secondary · 18 chapters
Jed Moody
antagonist · 13 chapters
Sid Baker
secondary · 13 chapters
JK Coe
secondary · 9 chapters
Moira Tregorian
secondary · 9 chapters
Kay White
secondary · 8 chapters
Struan Loy
secondary · 8 chapters
The Dogs 3
Internal security: the people who search flats and collect you before dawn.
Nick Duffy
secondary · 17 chapters
Sam Chapman
minor · 10 chapters
Emma Flyte
secondary · 7 chapters
Regent's Park 11
The Service proper — the Desks, Records, Limitations, and the retired officers who never quite leave.
Diana Taverner
antagonist · 35 chapters
David Cartwright
secondary · 22 chapters
James Webb
antagonist · 17 chapters
Ingrid Tearney
secondary · 16 chapters
Claude Whelan
secondary · 10 chapters
Charles Partner
secondary · 9 chapters
Molly Doran
secondary · 7 chapters
Giti Rahman
minor · 4 chapters
Roger Barrowby
secondary · 3 chapters
Richard Bough
secondary · 2 chapters
Douglas
minor
Whitehall 1
The politicians the Service answers to.
Adversaries 16
The people the novels are set against.
Sean Donovan
antagonist · 11 chapters
Patrice
antagonist · 9 chapters
Frank Harkness
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
Curly
antagonist · 6 chapters
Larry
antagonist · 6 chapters
Kyril
secondary · 6 chapters
Mahmud Gul
secondary · 4 chapters
Nikolai Katinsky
antagonist · 4 chapters
Seb
antagonist · 4 chapters
Yves
minor · 4 chapters
Sylvester Monteith
antagonist · 3 chapters
Civilians 8
Everyone else: villagers, hostages, journalists, and the ones the Service spends.