Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*

'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday

From 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. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now.

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. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.

Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.

'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham

'The spycraft of le Carr refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times

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Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series: * . *
The finest new crime series this Millennium * Mail on Sunday *
Mick Herron is the real deal * Irish Times *
I can't wait to read what Mick Herron writes next * Crime Fiction Lover *
Surely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years * Metro *
Herron has the comedy and eye to rival Len Deighton * Sunday Telegraph *
Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today * Publishers Weekly *
Delightful ... with a dry humour reminiscent of Greene and Waugh * Sunday Times *
PRAISE FOR THE TV SERIES
With two stellar seasons under its belt, we can now well and truly say Slow Horses is a series well worthy of the hype * Flickering Myth *
Blackly comic, brilliantly scripted, alternative spy drama * Independent, My Cultural Life *
Jackson Lamb is very much an anti-hero for our times: you might not want to share a lift with him, but when the chips are down you'd want him at your back -- Declan Burke * Irish Times *

Author Bio

Mick Herron is the author of the bestselling Slough House novels, which have won two CWA Daggers, been published in 20 languages, and are the basis of a major forthcoming TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. He is also the author of the Zoe Boehm series, and the standalone novels Reconstruction and This is What Happened. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.