5/8/2023 0 Comments Dead Lions by Mick Herron![]() ![]() Two other Slough House colleagues, Min Harper and his lover, Louisa Guy, have meanwhile been seconded as minders for the upcoming visit of oil oligarch Arkady Pashkin. Jackson Lamb, the perennially annoyed leader of the Slough House brigade, decides that both Dickie’s death and the cicadas warrant closer examination. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dickie Bow, formerly a street rat in Berlin who’s been following legendary Russian agent Alexander Popov, evidently learned enough for one final text message-“cicadas”-before he died, apparently of a heart attack, on a London bus. But now the embers of Slough House are stirred by the death of one of its own. The less successful ones-the ones who’ve shown themselves unfit because of unsafe personal habits or screw-ups that don’t rise to the level of criminal malfeasance-are packed off to Slough House, a dead-end office from which it’s hoped they’ll take themselves away by resigning from the service once they realize they’re never going to do anything important again. Successful retirees from MI5 are quietly pensioned off with the tacit thanks of a grateful nation. A second anti-terrorist workout for the sorely tried denizens of Finsbury’s Slough House ( Slow Horses, 2010). ![]()
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