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Dead Lions

The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 2)

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Dead Lions

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday

'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham

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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 Carré refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times Espionage Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense
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Critics' reviews

Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series:
The finest new crime series this Millennium
Mick Herron is the real deal
I can't wait to read what Mick Herron writes next
Surely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years
Herron has the comedy and eye to rival Len Deighton
Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today
Delightful ... with a dry humour reminiscent of Greene and Waugh
All stars
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Great book. , perfectly read. Only not given top marks because there is not enough Jackson Lamb , and too much time given to the Ops. Also , having heard Real Tigers( actually the wrong sequence) before this. , there’s much more Lamb and dry humour in that. It gets 5 stars

Another great stoty

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Book 2 of the Slow horses series didn’t disappoint! Perfect escapism to read a thriller which relived Cold War era spy lore in London and the Cotswolds. The slow horses are the British spies who messed up in the past - the losers and the loners - who work under the awful Jackson Lamb and yet still somehow manage to get the job done. The plot is complex, the writing clever & sarcastic and overall a very enjoyable experience!

Great plot and narration

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