The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. He is also the author of the Zoe Boehm series, and the standalone novels Reconstruction and This is What Happened. 'The spycraft of le Carré refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Timesĭead Lions is the second book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies, led by Jackson Lamb, ' the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)Ībout the Author: Mick Herron is the author of the bestselling Slough House novels, which have won two CWA Daggers, been published in 20 languages, and are the basis of a major forthcoming TV series starring Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb. 'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham 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.

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. 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 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. *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*

Dead Lions by Mick Herron