Add to that my penchant for satire and humour on the darker side, and it seems Mick Herron’s latest novel Dead Lions was made for me. I was an unabashed fan of the British TV series Spooks and will admit to having enjoyed an episode or two of the slightly less cool but charming TV series New Tricks. (First published by Soho Press 2013, republished by John Murray 2017)ĭisclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried? As the agents dig into their fallen comrade’s circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. The despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. Now the slow horses have a chance at redemption. And most of them would do anything to get there - even if it means having to collaborate with one another. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle-not unusual in this line of work.
Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can’t be trusted any more. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. London’s Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. Mick Herron’s Dead Lions won the 2013 CWA Gold Dagger Award.
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