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Zwei Agenten von Slough House, einem Abstellgleis des MI5, erhalten den Auftrag, einen russischen Oligarchen zu beschützen. Gleichzeitig wird ein ehemaliger Spion aus kalten Kriegszeiten tot aufgefunden, angeblich infolge eines Schlaganfalls. Bei beiden Fällen spielen russische Schläfer eine wichtige Rolle: "Dead Lions". Ausgerechnet die Agenten, denen keiner etwas zutraut, sind beim Erwachen der Löwen dabei.

London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their washed-up careers. Now they have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. Slough House’s head honcho, the despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered.

In Slough House memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process.

At a small faith group meeting I was urged by the Holy Spirit to look into the meaning of Arimathea. You may recall it was Joseph of Arimathea who went to Pilate to get the body of Jesus for burial. Arimathea, A Lion Dead to the Lord, is mentioned in all four Gospels. and as I type this I can't recall in my 75 years of every hearing a sermon, or in any other book that discusses Jesus on the Cross as being a Lion and fighting Satan as Satan has to be fought.

For teenagers Chris and Miles, working at the city zoo in the summer is a pretty sweet gig. They chase girls, smoke a little dope, and avoid thinking about their rapidly approaching futures. One is headed to college, and one to…who knows? But then the Zombie Apocalypse hits, and things get weird. Deadly animals, psychotic house painters, and a face-humping lemur named Sexy Rexy all get thrown into the mix, with plenty of laughs and chills to go around.

Los agentes de la Casa de la Ciénaga, donde los mandos del servicio de inteligencia británico envían a los espías caídos en desgracia, reciben el encargo de proteger a un oligarca ruso de visita en el país que el MI5 pretende alistar en sus filas. Mientras dos agentes son enviados al trabajo de vigilancia, Dickie Bow, un antiguo espía de la época de la Guerra Fría, es hallado muerto en los asientos traseros de un autobús en las afueras de Oxford.