IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languagesīut the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried? While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts.īut the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. In addition to curmudgeonly characters' entertaining screw-ups and ingenious plot entanglements, the novel exudes a wonderful sense of irony and world weary wisdom. is the author of six books in the Slough House series (Slow Horses, Dead Lions.

There are also some new characters introduced that show how easy it will be for Herron to freshen up the mix at Slough House as the series moves along. Dead Lions features some of the twistiest plotlines in crime fiction. It is an enjoyable story, and the characters that were established in that first book take some steps forward here. The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. If you enjoyed BBC TV series Spooks, you will love Mick Herron's Dead Lions (Book 2 Jackson Lamb Thriller). Dead Lions was mostly successful on that front.

The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies.

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