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2000s: Book Three of the Jackson Lamb series
Real Tigers
What you need to know before your trail
Chance encounters never happen to spooks.
Catherine Standish works in the Intelligence Service and has been there 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.
Finding out however is going to be tough and dangerous
Locations
Reset- England - London
- A: Aldersgate Street - Slough House
- B: MI5
- C: MI6
- D: Regent's Park
- E: Blackfriars Bridge
Travel Guide
Travel to Herron’s 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. As the novel opens the tall glass towers in the city are the only sign of light and life. The opening line more than sets the scene:
Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits”
The city is a landscape of half built construction sites where some grim scenes take place. Cranes, platforms, and cobbled lanes. History sitting in between the new builds like pockets of history such as a Georgian square. The rapid pulse of traffic acting as the modern day soundtrack.This is the London of Spooks, spies and undercover deals.
Even the weather is rough here – “The weather is breaking on Aldersgate Street. It is reeking in other places too, keen to wash the smells of hot tar from London;s roads but it is over Aldersgate Street that it appears angriest”
Streetview Maps
A) "Slough House" Aldersgate Street
B) MI5
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Real Tigers
Destination: London Author/Guide:Mick Herron Departure Time: 2000s
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