Dead Lions: Jackson Lamb Thriller 2

Dead Lions: Jackson Lamb Thriller 2

by Mick Herron (Author)

Synopsis

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award A BBC Front Row best crime novel of the year A Times crime and thriller book of the year 'The finest new crime series this Millennium' Mail on Sunday London's Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. But now the 'slow horses' have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient secrets that seems to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, and a decades-old conspiracy with a brand-new target: London's newest, tallest skyscraper ...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 08 Oct 2015

ISBN 10: 1473621933
ISBN 13: 9781473621930

Media Reviews
Praise for Mick Herron's Slough House 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
Author Bio
Mick Herron is a novelist and short story writer whose books include the Jackson Lamb series, the first of which - the Steel-Dagger nominated Slow Horses - has been described as the 'most enjoyable British spy novel in years'. The second Jackson Lamb novel, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger, and was picked by the Sunday Times as one of the best 25 crime novels of the past five years. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.