The 'slow horses,' as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn’t mean you can’t uncover secrets.ĭickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live. Dead Lions Mick Herron, Sen Barrett (Reading) 4.06 16,723 ratings1,481 reviews London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. On Dickie’s phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service’s back-yard. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day.īut he’s not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers. 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. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. Dead Lions (Slough House Book 2) Kindle Edition. *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*’The new king of the spy thriller’ Mail on SundayFrom the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus.
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