Dead Lions
Ein Fall für Jackson Lamb
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Zwei Agenten von Slough House, einem Abstellgleis des MI5, erhalten den Auftrag, einen russischen Oligarchen zu beschützen. Gleichzeitig wird ein ehemaliger Spion aus kalten Kriegszeiten tot aufgefunden, angeblich infolge eines Schlaganfalls. Bei beiden Fällen spielen russische Schläfer eine wichtige Rolle: ›Dead Lions‹. Ausgerechnet die Agenten, denen keiner etwas zutraut, sind beim Erwachen der Löwen dabei.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the opening chapter of Herron's funny, clever sequel to 2010's Slow Horses (2010), low-level British spy, Dickie Bow, dies on a bus to Oxford of apparently natural causes. To Jackson Lamb, the thoroughly unlikable head of Slough House ("the spooks' equivalent of Devil's Island," to which disgraced or out-of-favor British spies are exiled), Bow's death plus a cryptic, unsent text keyed into his cellphone (the single word "cicadas") suggest Russian intrigue, perhaps tied to a long-dormant, possibly mythical, spy named Alexander Popov. Meanwhile, two Slough House operatives are seconded to the job of protecting a Russian billionaire, Arkady Pashkin, in London for a nebulous meeting. The complex plot drags a bit in the middle, as Herron gets quite a number of balls in the air, but once he does, the narrative picks up real steam and becomes genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose.
