Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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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. Unfortunately, having secrets can be a very bad thing, even if you're that far down the spy ladder.

Nor does Herron like to protect his slow horses from the real dangers that they face. Let’s be blunt. People die. Characters who you will have liked will not make it to the end of the novel. This does invest the plot with a certain tension and with the exception of Lamb I am not sure I would put money on anyone surviving the next five books. But at least we know that, if any of them end up dead, Lamb’s comments to River will probably hold true for all of them and, I suppose, that beneath the flatulence and racism and antagonism, this probably counts for loyalty or at least courtesy:Slow Horses continues to impress as a modern-world-set variant on the classic Michael Caine / Harry Palmer tales of old, with Dead Lions very much the Funeral in Berlin to the first season's Ipcress File, seeing Gary Oldman's old dog uncover some seemingly-long buried Russian sleepers and an old adversary who still holds a grudge against him. The scale isn't exactly world-shaking, but it nonetheless has its moments and has certainly built itself up as a series to watch, with the extensive number of novels to adapt from suggesting it really has legs should Apple continue to invest in it. Marek Vašut as Andre Chernitsky, a former KGB operative and assassin who operated during the Cold War. And the characters are engaging (even Lamb) and likeable (except Lamb) despite their failings and weaknesses. One of the things I liked was the minutiae and inter-personal squabbles of the office spaces. Lamb who might be “scavenging his underlings’ food” when not dozing in his office, or Shirley pressing her ear to Ho’s door to find out what was going on, or Ho’s territorial claims: If you read one spy novel this year, read Real Tigers". Spectator.co.uk . Retrieved 18 December 2016.

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. Deputy-Director General Diana Taverner approaches another member of Slough House, Jed Moody, and instructs him to do some " off book" work for her. Two other members of Slough House, Min Harper and Louisa Guy, meet in a pub after work and lament their failed careers. River and Sid decide to tail Hobden, but she confesses that she was assigned to Lamb's team to keep tabs on River. The two see a masked man enter Hobden's home and pursue him, discovering upon entry that Hobden was able to destroy his hard drive with thermite. Hobden escapes as River and Sid fight the masked man, who escapes after shooting Sid in the head. Spook Street is one of the darker novels and what little comic relief there is, is provided by Roddy Ho getting a girlfriend, a plot thread which is pulled in the follow up novel, London Rules. It also lays the ground for the events of Joe Country, and at the same time introduces a series villain, ex-CIA operative Frank Harkness. This novel is a series highlight for me, and went on to win the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award as well as being shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, The British Book Awards and The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.What happens when a high-level spy starts showing signs of dementia? If he's unable to keep old secrets, will someone take care of him for good?