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. There they are set such tedious, mind-numbing tasks it’s hoped they will be fed-up enough to quit. Slough House is where the spook screw-ups from MI5 who, for some reason or other, can’t be sacked, are sent. 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. Dead Lions is the second novel in the Slough House series by British author, Mick Herron. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. The Barbican Station episode on the book Dead Lions. The book series has 6 books with the seventh releasing in February 2021 and an Apple TV+ show coming soon.
'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. This is a podcast exploring the world of the slow horses in Slough House created by Mick Herron.
In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, Jackson Lamb's crew of back-office no-hopers is about to go live.īorn in Newcastle, Mick Herron is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer whose works include the bestselling Jackson Lamb series, the Sarah Tucker/Zoë Boehm series and the standalone novel Reconstruction.*Soon to be a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* Now Lamb's got his phone, and on it the last secret Dickie ever told, and reason to believe an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Service's back-yard.
Good at following people, bringing home their secrets, Dickie was in Berlin with Jackson Lamb. And Dickie was a talented streetwalker back in the day, before he turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination.
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