Slough House系列小说现在出了七本主线外加三本番外，第八本也快出了。电视剧第一季就是原著第一本Slow Horses的内容，读了之后感觉总体挺还原的，改编得比较合适。原著和电视剧一样有很多神经病笑点，记录了几个有趣的地方。

1、第一幕小河测评，他们用的火车站就是国王十字车站，小河追人的时候路过了九号站台和十号站台之间，这会儿脑子里还在想哈利波特梗。我猜小河是狮院的。

‘Potterville,’ River muttered to himself. He passed under the bridge, and turned left too. A brief glimpse of overhead sky—grey and damp as a dishcloth—and River was entering the mini-concourse that housed platforms 9, 10 and 11. From its outside wall half a luggage trolley protruded: platform 9 3/4 was where the Hogwarts Express docked. River passed inside. The target was already heading down Platform 10.

2、这书在描写“破屋有多穷”和“兰姆有多胖”这两方面都完全不吝啬语言。破屋刚出现时有一段描写，说破屋小楼旁边其实有一家中餐馆，但是菜品少得可怜，兰姆觉得迟早有天那里就只剩蛋炒饭和糖醋排骨了。这难道就是你们在剧里出现康师傅方便面的理由？

to its right, the New Empire Chinese restaurant, whose windows are constantly obscured by a thick red curtain. A typewritten menu propped against the glass has yellowed with age but is never replaced; is merely amended with marker pen. If diversification has been the key to the newsagent's survival, retrenchment has been the long-term strategy of the New Empire, with dishes regularly struck from its menu like numbers off a bingo card. It is one of Jackson Lamb's core beliefs that eventually all the New Empire will offer will be egg-fried rice and sweet-and-sour pork. All served behind thick red curtains, as if paucity of choice were a national secret.

3、这里提到小河在观察兰姆上楼梯的动静非常轻（stealth），小河觉得自己那么瘦可能都做不到那么悄无声息，要知道兰姆胖得跟孕妇似的（书里真的花了大量笔墨写兰姆有多胖哈哈哈）。

Lamb was leaning in the doorway, his cheeks glistening slightly as they tended to after exertion. Climbing stairs counted, though he’d not made a squeak on them. River could barely manage such stealth himself, and he wasn’t carrying Lamb’s weight: most of it gathered round his middle, like a pregnancy.

电视剧应该是把这段改成喜剧桥段了，就是小河领着垃圾咣咣上楼、兰姆吐槽“特工动静怎么那么大啊”那一幕，剧中台词也用了stealthy这个词。

原著在这里应该是暗示兰姆其实是个训练有素的优秀特工，而剧集则是考虑搞笑，我觉得剧集这样改编也很巧妙，毕竟原著这样的文字描写如果仅靠视听语言传达的话很难让观众注意到。

这段让我觉得兰姆大概是兔逊，胖，看着懒，还很凶，但其实是个高级猎手。

4、兰姆骂小河是废物的那段，书里说小河当时已经在目测兰姆的椅子和窗户的距离，气到想把兰姆扔下去哈哈哈。

River had measured the distance between Lamb’s chair and the window. That blind wasn’t going to offer resistance. If River got the leverage right, Lamb would be a pizza-shaped stain on the pavement instead of drawing another breath;

5、这里从斯坦迪什的角度回忆了过去，兰姆年轻时是MI5的王牌，而且很有魅力，如果让她和他一夜情都会毫不犹豫（实际应该没有发生过，因为用的是虚拟语气）。小说里提到斯坦迪什年轻时也是很漂亮的，想必也不缺追求者，所以她能欣赏兰姆，说明兰姆那个时候的魅力不小，容我想象成狗爹的小天狼星。

A couple of years later, the world was upside down. Partner was dead; Slough House was up and running; and Jackson Lamb was king. And for some reason, Catherine Standish was beside him. Lamb had asked for her specifically, she discovered, but he never gave her one hint why. And she’d never asked him. If he’d had designs on her, he was years too late; there’d been a time when she’d have slept with him without giving it much thought, or remembering it afterwards, but since drying out she’d been more particular, and had slept with precisely no one. And if that ever changed, it wasn’t going to be for Jackson Lamb.

6、“兰姆的密码是password”这个梗是原著里有的。

7、总体来说剧集里的兰姆应该比原著更损一点，比如楼梯上的误杀发生之后，明解释“我不是故意的”，书里兰姆只是说“现在觉得抱歉啦？”，剧里改成“你要是故意想杀他他可能还死不了”。剧本真的太会改了哈哈哈。

’We didn’t mean to kill him, though.’ ‘Yeah,’ said Lamb. ‘It’s all very well being sorry now, isn’t it?’

8、记一个有趣的比喻，“他敞开手臂量了一下她这问题有多愚蠢”。这里是兰姆发现事情不妙然后来斯坦迪什家找她的时候。

‘Are you alone?’ she asked. He spread his arms as if to measure the stupidity of her question.

9、这段描写挺有意思：兰姆笑的时候，树叶的阴影在他的脸上晃动，他看起来就像是戈雅（西班牙画家）的画。

Lamb threw back his head and laughed a silent laugh, while leaves' shadows flickered across his wobbling face. He looked like someone Goya might have painted.

10、再次提到兰姆上楼梯的动作悄无声息，谨慎是他的第二天性。

Lamb took the stairs: quieter, more reliable, than a lift. Such caution was second nature.

11、剧里提过几次的“莫斯科规则”和“伦敦规则”，书里给了比较清晰的解释，莫斯科规则是“小心背后有人捅刀”，伦敦规则是“保护自己准备甩锅”

If Moscow rules meant watch your back, London rules meant cover your arse.Moscow rules had been written on the streets, but London rules were devised in the corridors of Westminster, and the short version read: someone always pays. Make sure it isn’t you. Nobody knew that better than Jackson Lamb. And nobody played it better than Di Taverner.

12、在戴女士的办公室，兰姆被戴女士威胁的时候想要恶心她，书里只是挠胳肢窝，剧里改成站起来挠屁股，太损了哈哈哈哈。

Jackson Lamb reached inside his coat, and had the satisfaction of seeing her flinch. Her expression turned to distaste as he scratched his armpit. ‘Think I might have been bitten at the canal.’

13、小河找到文件夹来戴女士办公室的那一幕，兰姆悠哉地抽起烟，小河就一直等到兰姆点头才打开文件夹。小河真是狗狗。

He was fiddling with his bent cigarette again, and seemed at least as interested in it as in whatever River’s folder held. But still: River waited until Lamb threw him a barely perceptible nod, before he went on.

14、剧集最后留下的悬念，斯坦迪什的老公查尔斯是被兰姆杀死的，原著第一部最后有一句可能交代了原因——查尔斯曾经为了金钱背叛。但是没有更具体的解释，估计会在后面几部解释。

Lamb has known greater treacheries. After all, Charles Partner—one-time head of Five—sold himself for money.

过段时间继续读第二本，希望能在第二季开播之前读完前3本。