Slow Horses and popular culture’s long fascination with the quest for the ‘perfect assassin’

By Luca Trenta, Associate Professor in International Relations, Swansea University

This article contains spoilers for season four of Slow Horses.

“Preemptive assassinations, that was his thing. He wanted to create a deniable assassination squad,” admits David Cartwright – an old intelligence chief – in the latest season of the hit Apple TV series Slow Horses. Cartwright is talking about a character called Frank Harkness, a former CIA and US special forces agent gone rogue – the…

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