Mind you, I am not the only one who took their time coming across this series: Dead Lions wasn’t able to find a UK publisher for years and sank without a trace initially according to The Guardian, and Waterstones made Slow Horses their thriller of the month seven years after it first publication. uk My ThoughtsĪmidst all the ARCs and Booker nominees – and especially as I was stuck in a car for hours as we drove down to see my parents which is not my favourite place to read – a fun and entertaining novel was called for and Herron’s series, to which I am very late in the day, fitted the bill perfectly. In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, Jackson Lamb’s crew of back-office no-hopers is about to go live. Now Lamb’s got his phone, and on it the last secret Dickie ever told, and reason to believe an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Service’s back-yard. Good at following people, bringing home their secrets.ĭickie was in Berlin with Jackson Lamb. And Dickie was a talented streetwalker back in the day, before he turned up dead on a bus. But one that seems predictable afterwards, with the benefit of hindsight.” Synopsisĭickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination.īut once a spook, always a spook. “Means a totally unexpected event with a big impact.
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