![]() ![]() Next up is a look at book 2.5 in the Slough House series The List. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. Dead Lions is a superb follow up to Slow Horses and proves that the Slough House series is well placed to have a long life, even if you can’t say the same for his characters. The despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. ![]() An old Cold War–era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. ![]() And most of them would do anything to get there-even if it means having to collaborate with one another.Now the slow horses have a chance at redemption. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle-not unusual in this line of work. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. The "slow horses," as they're called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. ![]()
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