Real Tigers
Slough House Thriller 3
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4.4 • 18 Ratings
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- €5.99
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Publisher Description
*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans*
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER AND THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR
'If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers' The Spectator
'The finest new crime series this millennium' Mail on Sunday
Catherine Standish knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks.
She's worked in the Intelligence Service long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back.
What she doesn't know is why anyone would target her: a recovering drunk pushing paper with the other lost causes in Jackson Lamb's kingdom of exiles at Slough House.
Whoever it is holding her hostage, it can't be personal. It must be about Slough House. Most likely, it is about Jackson Lamb.
And say what you like about Lamb, he'll never leave a joe in the lurch.
He might even be someone you could trust with your life . . .
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Mick Herron’s Inside Story: I wrote this book after having won the Gold Dagger [in 2013] for Dead Lions and it gave me a huge amount of confidence. This is where I really started having fun and let myself off the leash a bit. There are even elements of [James] Bond in it: the underground complex, chases and people shooting at each other—it was all very fun to do.”
Ultimately, these books do become increasingly political. Anybody who’s interested in writing satire is going to have as a primary target the government of the day, and the government of the day has been the Tory party since I’ve been writing them. Peter Judd is a character I devised because I wanted to incorporate in one figure all the worst aspects of British politicians at the time. So he is very much establishment, he’s very much of a self-appointed, elite public schoolboy, who’s far more interested in his own career and his own personal advancements. He’s somebody who should not have been allowed into a position of power. And it seemed me at that time when I was writing it, and ever since, that the government has been full of people like that.”
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The disgraced spies at MI5's Slough House must try to save one of their own in CWA Gold Dagger Award winner Herron's outstanding third thriller featuring uncouth Jackson Lamb and crew (after 2013's Dead Lions). When one of these "slow horses," Catherine Standish, doesn't show up for work, her colleagues don't initially worry until they're contacted by kidnappers who say that they'll only guarantee Standish's return in exchange for information stored on a secret government computer, which happens to be in MI5's headquarters in London's Regent's Park. River Cartwright, the hero of 2010's Slow Horses, tries to infiltrate the main office, not an easy task, especially since the agency ripples with internal strife as the new home secretary, Peter Judd, butts heads with the Intelligence Service chief, Dame Ingrid Tearney. Soon the lines between spies, slow horses, and private mercenaries blur dangerously. Herron expertly juggles multiple plot lines and fully formed characters, injecting everything with a jolt of black humor.
