Real Tigers: Slough House Thriller 3

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His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. When the team gets separated while transporting the bones, Johnson finds himself in Deadwood and must find a way to get the bones home—and stay alive doing it. Sizzlingly stylish, ferociously funny and fiercely intelligent, Mick Herron has managed to breathe new life into the spy novel.

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Rather, it is its elegant style, original viewpoint, dry wit and spring-to-life characters, some recognisable. But instead of exchanging pleasantries or war stories about the Family Court, he is thrown from the roof. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. The kidnapping is only the tip of the iceberg, however - the agents uncover a larger web of intrigue that involves not only a group of private mercenaries but the highest authorities in the Secret Service. Louisa Guy goes to Pembrokeshire to find him; after all she had been in a relationship with Min, another slow horse and Lucas’ father.

A]tour de force, in which virtually every single player—good guys, bad guys, all the turncoats and in-betweeners—is somehow connected to British Intelligence.

Real Tigers (Slough House Book 3) - Kindle edition by Herron Real Tigers (Slough House Book 3) - Kindle edition by Herron

Real Tigers sees them dragged center stage when the kidnap of Lamb’s assistant sets into motion a narrative of breathtaking ingenuity. It is still headed by the fearsome Jackson Lamb, an ex-Joe (street operative) who knows where all the bodies are buried – indeed, he put some of them there. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.Deliciously tongue-in-cheek and with a strikingly serpentine construction, it is a thriller that moves Herron close to the class of Graham Greene. The great spy novelists - Ambler, Greene, le Carré, Deighton - pull off the difficult double act of showing that the business of espionage is simultaneously deadly serious and highly risible: office politics on a grand scale. Involving themselves in the drama, the slow horses soon realise that the machinations of The Park are even more twisted than they could ever have imagined.

Real Tigers by Mick Herron: 9781616957988

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLDSBORO GOLD DAGGER AND THE IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER SHORTLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers' The Spectator 'The finest new crime series this millennium' Mail on Sunday Catherine Standish knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks. When another member of the “slow horses” is contacted and given a treasonous assignment (in exchange for Catherine’s safety), the loyalty within this misfit group leads to a cascading sequence of events that upsets the power dynamic at some of the highest reaches of the UK government. The latest instalment in the eventful days and sleepless nights of the denizens of Slough House is another sheer delight .The disgraced spies at MI5’s Slough House must try to save one of their own in CWA Gold Dagger Award–winner Herron’s outstanding third thriller . Thanks to crisp, clever dialogue, the reader is quickly drawn into the odd camaraderie of the Slough House team and their specific quirks. When one of their own is kidnapped, the washed-up MI5 operatives of Slough House—the Slow Horses, as they're known—outwit rogue agents at the very highest levels of British Intelligence, and even to Downing Street itself. There was a time when kickass – and we mean proper kickass – female protagonists were thin in the ground.