Dead Lions (Hardcover)

from Eyejaybee

Jackson Lamb is back, just as grotesque, crass and generally objectionable as he was in Slow Horses, the first volume in this hugely enjoyable series. He is still presiding over Slough House, the bin end of internal exile to which compromised or incompetent MI5 agents, disdainfully referred to as...

from pgchuis

This is the second in the Slough House series and the disgraced MI5 agents, despite their stunning success in the last book, have not been allowed to return to Regent's Park and are still doing their mundane tasks. Then two of them are seconded by Webb (whom we already hate from the first book) a...

from asxz

A second super entry in the series. There's plenty of action but plenty of working through the problem also. Not sure that every emotional beat is wholly earned, but it rattles along so pleasingly that it's hard to quibble. I'd like to see the slow horses function more as an actual team in the fu...

from ethel55

This read like a classic cold war tale of the LeCarre or MacInnes era. Jackson Lamb (mildly reminiscent of another outcast detective, Carl Morck) heads up an outpost for MI5 that is made up of misfits, placed there for various goofs in their earlier postings. When the death of an old, low-level s...

from AnnieMod

What is the connection between a dead ex-spy (a minor one but still a spy) and a Russian oligarch talking to the Secret Service? None at the surface but as Herron opens the novel with both of these, you know they will connect (one of those days an author will actually be brave enough to leave som...