Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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All you need to know is that Slough House – run by Jackson Lamb – is the dumping ground for all the burnt out and disgraced spies from MI5, assigned mind-numbingly boring admin tasks in the hope that they will resign and go away. He, River, Min and Louisa arrive at the property but upon entry discover it empty aside from Moe's beheaded corpse. He’s nearly always grubby and greasy and stuffing himself with bacon sandwiches after which he farts noisily and lights yet another cigarette. Slough House Book 1: Slough House, a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up through drunkenness, ineptitude, and betrayal. So when the man responsible for the death of a slow horse breaks cover, Lamb sends his crew out to even the score.

If you've already read Mick Herron's "Slow Horses" you probably can't wait to get stuck into this, the next in the series, featuring the ghastly Jackson Lamb and his band of MI5 throw-backs. Kicking off with 2010’s Slow Horses, Mick Herron’s Slough House series has lit a match under the British spy genre. The brilliant spy thriller ‘Slow Horses’ was one of my top discoveries this year and this, the second novel in the excellent ‘Slough House’ series very much lives up to my high expectations. Ho and newcomer Shirley Dander retrieve CCTV footage from the bus and train, showing that the man Bough was following discreetly poisoned him and then took a further train to Stroud in The Cotswolds.Showrunner Will Smith has stated that the fourth season should be released by the end of December 2024. At the same time, two of the horses are sent to babysit a Russian tycoon who might make a deal with the service. She loses him during a chase through the city before exchanging the file (labelled 'Footprint') with an unknown man. Curly prepares to kill Hassan outside what he believes is a Norman castle, which Ahmed points out is actually a folly.

The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies.Slow Horses' Adds 'Peaky Blinders' Star Aimee-Ffion Edwards, 'This Is Going to Hurt's' Kadiff Kirwan to Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)". Louisa meets with Pashkin at his hotel armed with a utility knife, intent on torturing him as she believes he is responsible for Min's death. Standish beats Krymov in a game of chess and he reveals it was Katinsky, not Pashkin, who he met with to set up the Webb meeting. was one of several Second Desks, but top of most people's list whenever there were rumours of a Palace coup. by looking into the death of a former Cold War operative as he experiences “the five stages [of grief]: denial, anger, bargaining, indifference, breakfast.

With betrayal, political infighting and manoeuvring, our spies fight for their lives and reputations. In Paddington the monitors wiped departure times, flagging everything ‘Delayed’, and stalled trains clogged the platforms; on the concourse luckless travellers clustered round suitcases, while seasoned commuters repaired to the pub, or rang home with cast-iron alibis before hooking up with their lovers back in the city. Min and Louisa are seconded by Webb to provide background security for a clandestine meeting at The Glasshouse between him and Arkady Pashkin, a representative of UK-based energy oligarch and defector Ilya Nevsky. Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.Still not off their prime, well trained, motivated but cursing themselves for having erred majorly on some assignment or the other. This clever and funny send-up of the spy thriller won this year's CWA Gold Dagger for the best work of crime fiction. In Dead Lions, a bogeyman emerges from the Cold War ether while an ambitious suit from Regent's Park cultivates a Russian oligarch as a future asset.