Dead Lions: The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 2)
Oct 2015 · Hachette UK
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*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
'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
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4.7
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Alison Robinson
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June 21, 2024
I enjoyed this, but not as much as the first book. It may just be that I didn't read it practically at one sitting like the first one, but I found it somewhat disjointed flipping between the babysitting job and the hunt for the Cold War spy, which itself took place at Slough House and in the Cotswolds simultaneously. Now the dilemma, do I watch the TV series (since I've just got a three month free trial of Apple TV+) or carry on reading?
David McAllister
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June 3, 2023
A well-crafted follow up to Slow Horses. Necessarily implausible in places as befits the genre, perhaps, but believable enough to be engaging and entertaining. Onto the next....
Rebecca Jones
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December 17, 2022
Slough House Slays! I was recommended the series by my friend as he said it's not often he finds a book he can't put down and I totally agree. I borrowed Slow Horses from him in paperback, read it in a couple of days and then bought the whole series from the Google store with my play points (I do a lot of surveys) I was holding off on the TV series until I'd finished Dead Lions, but I succumbed and watched Slow Horses. Reading the books and hearing Gary Oldman and the other cast really brings them to life. I'm looking forward to Real Tigers now
About the author
Mick Herron is the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Slough House thrillers, which have won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award, two CWA Daggers, been published in twenty-five languages, and are the basis of a major TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He is also the author of the Zoë Boehm series, and the standalone novels Nobody Walks and The Secret Hours. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
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