Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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After the rest of Slough House leaves, Lamb adds a handwritten note commemorating Dickie Bow's service as a joe. If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added. Louisa Guy, perhaps, has most focus but this novel felt much more like a genuine ensemble cast – and benefited from that, too. And the characters are engaging (even Lamb) and likeable (except Lamb) despite their failings and weaknesses.

At the same time, two of the horses are sent to babysit a Russian tycoon who might make a deal with the service. In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, Jackson Lamb’s crew of back-office no-hopers is about to go live . River is able to rescue Roddy before he can be taken into custody, but Min and Louisa are unable to stop their colleague Struan Loy from being taken from his home by operatives.

The two report this finding to Lamb, who secures River's release from MI5 and sends him with Guy to Chieftain's headquarters, where they discover that Webb had been working with Chieftain the entire time. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. One case in point is Catherine Standish, whom Lamb disparaged as his Miss Havisham, but Herron revealed her to be savvy and astute. What really interests me is the characters and getting to grips with them, and them getting to grips with each other. Slow Horses is a British spy thriller television series based on the Slough House series of novels by Mick Herron.

There are twists and red herrings and the reader will find it hard not to cheer these misfits on as they do their best. When Dickie Bow dies at the back of a bus, everyone assumes the old alcoholic shuffled off this mortal coil naturally. Slow Horses' Adds 'Peaky Blinders' Star Aimee-Ffion Edwards, 'This Is Going to Hurt's' Kadiff Kirwan to Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)". Slough House's cyber expert, Roddy Ho, discovers he cannot hack Hobden's laptop as it is air gapped, furthering everybody's suspicions. Unfortunately like some modern paperbacks the pages came out almost immediately so I'm not keeping for a 2nd read or to share.He discovers through her that Tropper and his wife Alex used to be student radicals who moved to the village from London. There is one moment that nearly made me stop reading the book and give up: he doesn’t just drink in front of the recovering alcoholic Catherine; he doesn’t just offer her a drink; he pours and places a drink in front of her! One night Donovan follows Dunn, suspecting she has stolen a classified file from the British embassy. Herron had created something quite special with this series, which I had recognized with the first installment.