Slough House · Book 2
Dead Lions
- Published
- 1 January 2013
- Pages
- 364
- ISBN-13
- 9780753153826
- Type
- novel
About this book
The second Slough House novel, Dead Lions (2013, 364 pages), continues Jackson Lamb's slow horses through another operation that Regent's Park's careerists have botched and need deniable bodies to clean up -- the same dark comic engine that drives the whole series.
Its place in Slough House
Dead Lions is book 2 in the Slough House series. It follows Slow Horses. It is followed by The List. See the full Slough House reading order.
Slough House is where MI5 dumps the officers it can't fire but won't trust with real work: the screw-ups, addicts and burnouts, exiled to humiliating desk jobs under the vile, brilliant, permanently flatulent Jackson Lamb. Mick Herron's spy novels invert the glamorous-espionage template completely -- his "slow horses" are second-rate by design, and the series' dark comedy comes from watching them get pulled into real, high-stakes operations anyway, usually because Regent's Park (the actual Service, run by…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780753153826