Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.ĭickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live. Read more on other Slough House books here. 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. In anticipation of Mick Herron’s US release of London Rules, the fifth book in his Slough House series, I’m doing a re-read of the first four books. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sundayįrom 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. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.ĭickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 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.

The author Mick Herron leaves both the reader and the other Slow Horses very much in the dark as to this man’s thoughts and motivations, revealing just enough to keep us hooked.

Central to its success is the character of Jackson Lamb. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* Dead Lions works as both a comedy and a crime/espionage thriller.

Dead Lions by Mick Herron