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2000s: Book two of Jackson Lamb – Once a spook, always a spook
Dead Lions
What you need to know before your trail
Dickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination.
But once a spook, always a spook. And Dickie was a talented streetwalker back in the day, before he turned up dead on a bus. A shadow. Good at following people, bringing home their secrets.
Dickie was in Berlin with Jackson Lamb. 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.
In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, Jackson Lamb’s crew of back-office no-hopers is about to go live . .
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Dodgy London
This is the London where the spooks work in the shadows and by the early morning, the city is already damp, dark and foggy.
Slough House
Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they’ve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work.
“Slough House, its flaky paintwork, its flakier denizens….”
Regent’s Park
This is an alternative Security Service – if you’re exiled from Regent’s park, the Services heart and moral high ground, then you’re sent to Slough House. That’s not its real name, it hasn’t got one. Those who work here are called Slow Horses, Slough House if you say it slowly enough. A wordplay based on a joke whose origins were almost forgotten.
There is a brief sejour to the Cotswolds and a jaunt to Reading.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Dead Lions
Author/Guide:Mick Herron Destination: London Departure Time: 2000s
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