Dead Lions (#2 Slough House)
Author(s): Mick Herron
Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger Award A BBC Front Row best crime novel of the year A Times crime and thriller book of the year 'The finest new crime series this Millennium' Mail on Sunday London's Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. But now the 'slow horses' have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient secrets that seems to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, and a decades-old conspiracy with a brand-new target: London's newest, tallest skyscraper ...
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Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today Publishers Weekly Smart, sharp British wit at its finest. A uniquely brilliant take on the British spy novel Cara Black, New York Times bestselling author of Murder Below Montparnasse Delightful ... with a dry humour reminiscent of Greene and Waugh Sunday Times
Mick Herron is a novelist and short story writer whose books include the Slough House series, the first of which - the Steel-Dagger nominated Slow Horses - has been described as the 'most enjoyable British spy novel in years'. The second Slough House novel, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger, and was picked by the Sunday Times as one of the best 25 crime novels of the past five years. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.
General Fields
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- : Hodder & Stoughton
- : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- : 0.24
- : 30 September 2015
- : 198mm X 129mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 October 2015
- : 26 September 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : Mick Herron
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : en
- : 823.92
- : 352
