What follows is a reasonably faithful retelling of Herron’s second Slough House. Smarting from being banished, the raw anger is not yet dulled, and both are looking for the emergency exit back to Regents Park. Newcomers Shirley Dander and Marcus Longbridge circle each other like lions. However the book description gives reason to be nervous saying that the slow horses have been pushed further into.

That means Slough House would normally be a safe book for the characters. Joe Country was particularly bloody for some of them. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languagesīut the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. 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 show seamlessly threads the tonal needle through moments of absurdity and instances of profound sadness. Two new slow horses have been stabled at Slough House. Since Dead Lions, Herron has setup an every other book dynamic of killing off slow horses. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?

While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts.īut the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. 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 disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. 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.

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