Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn’t mean you can’t uncover secrets.ĭickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live. 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. To Jackson Lamb, the thoroughly unlikable head of Slough House (the spooks equivalent of Devils Island, to which disgraced or out-of-favor British spies. But he’s not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. Slough House is where the spook screw-ups from MI5 who, for some.
He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. Dead Lions is the second novel in the Slough House series by British author, Mick Herron. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. This story is a crucial follow up to both Slough House and Bad Actors and fans of River and Roddy won’t want to miss it. Follow the latest news about the upcoming AppleTV adaption here. The second season, based on Dead Lions, was filmed back-to-back with the first and premiered on 2 December 2022. ‘The new king of the spy thriller’ Mail on Sundayįrom 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. The Barbican Station episode on the book Dead Lions. Soho Crime, 25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61695-225-9 In the opening chapter of Herron’s funny, clever sequel to 2010’s Slow Horses (2010), low-level British spy, Dickie Bow. The Slough House series has been adapted for television under the name Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb, with the first six-part season, based on the book Slow Horses, streamed on Apple TV+ from 1 April 2022. *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
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