Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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Wiseman, Andreas (11 April 2023). ""'Slow Horses' Season Four: Hugo Weaving, Joanna Scanlan & Ruth Bradley Among Cast To Join Gary Oldman In Apple Spy Series, Filming Underway" ". Deadline. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023 . Retrieved 11 April 2023. Herron (Down Cemetery Road, 2009, etc.) provides a dour, twisty spy thriller with something for everyone: part post–Cold War miasma, part James Bond heroics, and elliptical withal. Although it says it right in the title, this is a novel about death and how we move past the loss of those that we care for or are responsible for. Or that maybe there is no moving on from losing someone? Do you take revenge or find some sort of acceptance with the new reality? In the end, Herron’s point seems to be that raging against the way things are does little long term good for yourself and nothing to help those whom you’ve lost. Easy to say, harder to do. Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge are the odd couple, though they’re not even a couple. She was in comms at The Park before she laid out a co-worker, and also has addiction issues. He used to break down doors and carry a gun before his gambling problems compromised him. Herron provides a dour, twisty spy thriller with something for everyone: part post–Cold War miasma, part James Bond heroics, and elliptical withal.”

Slough House isn't the name of a building but an epithet for a particular branch of MI5, Britain's Secret Service (aka "Regent's Park" after their primary location).Marek Vašut as Andre Chernitsky, a former KGB operative and assassin who operated during the Cold War.

Special offer is good for three months after the first activation of the eligible device. One offer per Family Sharing group. Plans automatically renew until cancelled. Other restrictions and terms apply; visit apple.com/promo for more information. I should add that it’s well-written and the descriptions of place and atmosphere are as good as those of the characters. A church spire in a country town reached “a skyline it had kissed for hundreds of years”. Taverner meets with Lamb and reveals Ahmed is the nephew of the second-in-command of Pakistani Military Intelligence. His kidnapping and intended rescue is an unsanctioned false-flag operation masterminded by Taverner herself to potentially increase cooperation with Pakistan as well as neutralise and intimidate the far-right. She claims to have an operative embedded with the Sons of Albion who organised the kidnapping but will also facilitate the rescue. It is also revealed that Standish narrowly escaped a treason charge through her links with Partner and his death. A second anti-terrorist workout for the sorely tried denizens of Finsbury’s Slough House ( Slow Horses, 2010). Herron's short stories have been regularly published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and some are collected in the book All the Livelong Day, published in 2013.White, Peter (15 November 2019). "Gary Oldman To Star In Spy Drama 'Slow Horses' For Apple With 'Justified's Graham Yost Exec Producing". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 7 September 2020 . Retrieved 26 January 2021. A decade and several novels on, Judd has graduated into a manipulative, cynical villain, happy to ally himself with the nationalist far right in his endless pursuit of personal power. Herron, as it happens, was a student reading English at Balliol College, Oxford, at the same time as Boris Johnson. Did you know the prime minister then, I ask? “I saw him once or twice in the junior common room. I wasn’t mixing in that kind of circle,” he says, drily. “I don’t think the Bullingdon Club opened its arms to northern comprehensive types, somehow.” Herron seems a little sheepish at the resemblance between the fictional PJ and the all-too-real BJ. “When I started,” he says, “I didn’t have a readership, so I could say what I liked and it didn’t matter.”

Robotham shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger". Books+Publishing. 14 August 2020 . Retrieved 16 August 2020. Funny, clever . . . Genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose.” I'm insulted by the stupidity of "the Needle" sub-plot, and that even with insane lust for power, anyone over the age of 8 would fall for this crap. Bad deal,Herron. Ugh" Much more assured than "Slow Horses", with good pacing, interesting expansion of the main characters, and a good central mystery. Great stuff!" href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0111-1/5D9/AB3/D4/{5D9AB3D4-30A4-4647-91F7-5ECE27D2D0D0}Img150.jpgIf you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers". Spectator.co.uk . Retrieved 18 December 2016. Louisa Guy was sent to Slough House after she lost a tail involved in gun smuggling. She is one of the most competent agents and appears in every book. She and Min Harper had a brief but intense affair which ended in tragic circumstances. Dead Lions is a superb follow up to Slow Horses and proves that the Slough House series is well placed to have a long life, even if you can’t say the same for his characters. Dead Lions had a tough act to follow as Slow Horses, the debut novel of the Slough House series, had set the bar very high. Herron had written the sequel as a standalone, however, so new readers could start here. I'd then recommend reading the first installment before resuming the series.