Dead 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)

*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*

'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday

From 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. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now.

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. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.

Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.

'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham

'The spycraft of le Carre refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times

Details

ISBN13: 9781399803069
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of Pages: 336
Edition:
Publication Date: 08 Mar 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press
Publication City, Country: United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.8(L)x2.8(W)270
Weight (gm): 270

Author Biography

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. He is also the author of the Zoe Boehm series, and the standalone novels Reconstruction and This is What Happened. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.

Reviews

Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series: * . *
The finest new crime series this Millennium * Mail on Sunday *
Mick Herron is the real deal * Irish Times *
I can't wait to read what Mick Herron writes next * Crime Fiction Lover *
Surely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years * Metro *
Herron has the comedy and eye to rival Len Deighton * Sunday Telegraph *
Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today * Publishers Weekly *
Delightful ... with a dry humour reminiscent of Greene and Waugh * Sunday Times *