Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets. 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. Synopsis Dickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination. The whole premise of the stories - that the unsackable but unuseable employees of British Intelligence are banished to somewhere. Mick Herrons Slough House spy novels seem to me to live on the precarious edge of parody. But one that seems predictable afterwards, with the benefit of hindsight. : Dead Lions: Slough House, Book 2 (Audible Audio Edition): Mick Herron, Gerard Doyle, Recorded Books: Books. Means a totally unexpected event with a big impact. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. Book Review: Dead Lions, Mick Herron Posted on by The Book Lover's Sanctuary It’s a phrase, black swan, she said. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. *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.ĭickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets.
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