{"product_id":"dead-lions-the-bestselling-thrillers-that-inspired-the-hit-apple-tv-show-slow-horses-slough-house-thriller-2-9781399803069","title":"Dead Lions: The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDead Lions\u003c\/i\u003e is the second book in the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies, led by Jackson Lamb, '\u003cb\u003ethe most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' \u003c\/b\u003e(Sunday Times)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The spycraft of le Carre refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781399803069\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 08 Mar 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: John Murray Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.8(H)x12.8(L)x2.8(W)270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 270\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eMick 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 \u003ci\u003eReconstruction\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis is What Happened\u003c\/i\u003e. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford.\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series:\u003c\/b\u003e * . *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe finest new crime series this Millennium\u003c\/b\u003e * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMick Herron is\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe real deal\u003c\/b\u003e * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI can't wait to read what Mick Herron writes next\u003c\/b\u003e * Crime Fiction Lover *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSurely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years\u003c\/b\u003e * Metro *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerron has the comedy and eye to rival Len Deighton\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHerron may be\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ethe most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today\u003c\/b\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDelightful ... with a dry humour reminiscent of Greene and Waugh\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *","brand":"Mick Herron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48745895788761,"sku":"9781399803069","price":24.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/81f9gREeJ5L._SL1500_9983ac33-741c-4edf-9624-2bf59520e904.jpg?v=1779869527","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/dead-lions-the-bestselling-thrillers-that-inspired-the-hit-apple-tv-show-slow-horses-slough-house-thriller-2-9781399803069","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}