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Dead Lions

The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 2)

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Dead Lions

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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 *Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*

'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday

'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham

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From 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.

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. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.

Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.

'The spycraft of le Carré refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times Crime Thrillers Espionage Political Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Exciting Witty Funny

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Critic reviews

Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series:
The finest new crime series this Millennium
Mick Herron is the real deal
I can't wait to read what Mick Herron writes next
Surely among the finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years
Herron has the comedy and eye to rival Len Deighton
Herron may be the most literate, and slyest, thriller writer in English today
Delightful ... with a dry humour reminiscent of Greene and Waugh
All stars
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I’ve only just discovered Mick Herron’s writing. The Slough House novels are wonderful: carefully plotted, somehow both exciting and funny on the same page, wonderful characterisation. I’m now going to have to get the whole series!

Fantastic series of novels

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This would be worth listening to for Jackson Lamb alone, such is his grotesque magnificence, but there is so much more to savour than that joy alone. The 'Slow Horses' canter into another near disaster and a highly entertaining ride ensues.
Sean Barrett brings the whole wonderful thing alive with his laconic narration. Like a good malt in front of the fire on a blustery night with the 'OB'.

Jackson Lamb Rules

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Thoroughly enjoyed listening to this story and looking forward to the next one. The narration really brought it to life.

Great story and brilliant narration.

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loved it and really got into this storyline, however Herrons writing style of jumping between locations can make it a little confusing but you get use to it. it's made easier by the Narrator who characterised the book beautifully

confusing to start but you get use to it

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Absolutely loving this series. The stories are great and Sean Barrett's performance is just amazing, brings all the characters to life, especially Jackson Lamb.

Thoroughly entertaining, suspenseful, funny & thrilling.

Great story and perfect performance.

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