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.
Key facts about Dead Lions
Dead Lions is a novel by Mick Herron. Readers have had it since 2013. It runs to 364 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Dead Lions. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780753153826 to find the main one.
Dead Lions is book 2 of 13 in the Slough House series. The series has 13 published books. However, the series starts with Slow Horses (2010).
Additionally, Mick Herron writes Zoë Boehm as a separate series. Those series sit on our mystery and spy thriller shelves. Meanwhile, Clown Town is the latest published Mick Herron book on file, from 2025.
About Mick Herron
Mick Herron is a British author best known for the Slough House series (also published as the Jackson Lamb novels or Slow Horses), a critically acclaimed spy fiction series following a squad of disgraced MI5 officers exiled to a dead-end administrative posting under the deliberately repugnant, foul-mouthed Jackson Lamb. See every Mick Herron book in order.
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