Dead lions
Herron, Mick2022
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Dead Lions is the second book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies, led by Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times) *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'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham****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.'The spycraft of le Carr refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times
Main title:
Dead lions / Mick Herron.
Author:
Herron, Mick, author
Imprint:
London : Baskerville, 2022.
Collation:
336 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Soho Crime, 2013.
ISBN:
9781399803069 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
721203
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