Luckily, he has an office full of assets who are just ripe for an investigation the big shots at Regents Park don’t want investigating. Lamb knows there is more to the death of Dickie Bow than meets the eye. A spook who worked with Jackson Lamb and the only spook said to have seen the elusive Popov, a bogyman supposedly made up by the Soviet Union as a diversion tactic. Nothing suspicious about that, expect this old man was an old spook.

Īn old man dies on a rail replacement bus. In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, Jackson Lamb’s crew of back-office no-hopers is about to go live. Now Lamb’s got his phone, and on it the last secret Dickie ever told, and reason to believe an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Service’s back-yard. Good at following people, bringing home their secrets.ĭickie was in Berlin with Jackson Lamb.

And Dickie was a talented streetwalker back in the day, before he turned up dead on a bus. Publication date 8 October 2015 (UK) (US)ĭickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination.īut once a spook, always a spook. Real Tigers: Jackson Lamb Thriller 3 Catherine Standish knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks.She's worked in the Intelligence Service long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back.What she doesn't know is why anyone would target her: a recovering drunk pushing paper with the other lost causes in Jackson Lamb's kingdom of exiles at Slough House.Published by John Murray (Soho Crime in the US) As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient secrets that seems to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, and a decades-old conspiracy with a brand-new target: London's newest, tallest skyscraper. But now the 'slow horses' have a chance at redemption.An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. Dead Lions: Jackson Lamb Thriller 2 London's Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. Description : Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb Thriller 1 You don't stop being a spook just because you're no longer in the game.Banished to Slough House from the ranks of achievers at Regent's Park for various crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal, Jackson Lamb's misfit crew of highly trained joes don't run ops, they push paper. Mick herron jackson lamb thriller series 3 books collection set - (slow horses,dead lions,real tiger).

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