Dead Lions
The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 2)
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4.1 • 24 Ratings
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- €5.49
Publisher Description
*Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*
'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday
In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where spies mockingly called the slow horses are sent to finish what is left of their careers, their boss Jackson Lamb is on his way Oxford. A former spook has turned up dead on a bus.
Not an obvious target for assassination, Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker back in the day. Good at following people, bringing home their secrets. Dickie was in Berlin with Jackson Lamb. Now Lamb's got his phone, on it the last secret Dickie ever told, and reason to believe an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service's back-yard.
Once a spook, always a spook, and Dickie was one of their own. To unearth Dickie's dying secret Jackson Lamb and his crew of no-hopers is about to go live.
'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham
'The spycraft of le Carré refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Mick Herron’s Inside Story: With this book, I was being deliberately nostalgic. In a way I wanted to write a proper Cold War book, so I brought lots of old skeletons out of cupboards. As a character expresses in the book: ‘The Cold War is a natural state of being’, and we are edging back towards it once again. I’m letting the characters speak their own minds, but there does seem to be a certain amount of truth in it today.”
During my lifetime, the points where there hasn’t been this tension between East and West didn’t seem to last very long. The Wall went down and then, five minutes later, we were all at each other’s throats again. So it’s sad, but true. The state of the world is always going to be dependent on everybody being sane, balanced and well-intentioned, and that just doesn’t happen in terms of leaders.”
Customer Reviews
Good read, sometimes tedious.
Good enough to hold my interest, so a good read. Some of the description was a bit tedious, and the thing hops about and sometimes gets in the way of the action; I understand the device but it can be frustrating. Having said all that, it’s well worth the effort of reading, and I shall persevere with the other books in the series.
Kerpowww
Interesting little story line keeps you guessing. Pity it doesn’t have a tidy end.