I nearly wrecked Slow Horses!

SLOW HORSES creator Mick Herron has revealed the Apple TV adaptation of his books starring Gary Oldman as spymaster Jackson Lamb was delayed by a year — because he forgot to tell lawyers one of its characters had been in an earlier novel.

- By Jon Coates and Matt Nixson

This prompted “dead silence” among legal experts and then a year of talks — despite there being a simple solution.

Mick, 62, was in conversation with the show’s screenwriter Will Smith, 54, at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in Harrogate, supported by the Sunday Express.

During this Mick, inset right, admitted regretting having used “Bad” Sam Chapman in his Slough House books.