Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge are the odd couple, though they’re not even a couple. She was in comms at The Park before she laid out a co-worker, and also has addiction issues. He used to break down doors and carry a gun before his gambling problems compromised him. Paul Hilton as Robert Hobden, a disgraced and struggling journalist with ties to extremist far-right groups.

If his marriage had been strong to begin with, he sometimes lectured himself, it would have survived his professional humiliation, but the truth, he’d come to understand, held a tighter focus. If he himself had been strong, he would have ensured that his marriage survived. As it was, his marriage was definitely a thing of the past, what with Louisa being on the scene. He was pretty sure Clare wouldn’t tolerate that particular development, and while he hadn’t told her about it, he wasn’t convinced she didn’t know. Women were born spooks, and could smell betrayal before it happened. River speaks with his grandfather about Bough's death. David discusses the "cicada" theory of Russian sleeper agents embedded in British society, which MI5 dismissed as a hoax after no sleepers were found and discovered that the programme's alleged mastermind, Alexander Popov, did not exist. He tells River that Bough went AWOL in East Berlin and was assumed to have defected, but returned drunk. Bough claimed to have been kidnapped and tortured by Popov, who force-fed him brandy, but was fired. David dismisses River's theory that Bough's death was the work of the FSB or related to a conspiracy, but warns River to be careful. The central conceit of the books is that MI5, like any large organisation, needs somewhere to place its most hopeless employees, and this place is Slough House, a building just around the corner from the Barbican Centre. They’re not allowed anywhere near MI5 HQ, which is referred to as Regent’s Park although the organisation is no longer based there. Much more assured than "Slow Horses", with good pacing, interesting expansion of the main characters, and a good central mystery. Great stuff!" Second season of acclaimed series starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman premieres globally Friday, 2 December on Apple TV+This is proving to be a very addictive series. Fortunately I have all of them sitting on my Kindle so I will be able to feed my addiction:)

In this volume the Slow Horses of Slough House, for people supposedly relegated to clerical make-work, see a lot of exciting (and very dangerous) action. For which, as usual, they receive no accolades and plenty of blame. Because their real function is to be scapegoats for Regents Park. Marcus Longridge- Special operator and potential plant in Slough House by the politically wily Diana Taverner. imprint Soho Crime publishDate 2013-05-07T00:00:00-04:00 isOwnedByCollections True title Dead Lions fullDescription As for the writing, I am a big fan of Herron's style in which he slips from scene to scene without letting you know you've moved. One dialogue flows straight into the next and only through what's said or the character speaking do you know which scene you're in.

THE SECRET HOURS

From there on, the plot gets sillier and sillier, more and more chaotic and choppy. By the last 1/4 of the book, the point of view changes with almost every paragraph. What a nasty, stupid mess.

Although it says it right in the title, this is a novel about death and how we move past the loss of those that we care for or are responsible for. Or that maybe there is no moving on from losing someone? Do you take revenge or find some sort of acceptance with the new reality? In the end, Herron’s point seems to be that raging against the way things are does little long term good for yourself and nothing to help those whom you’ve lost. Easy to say, harder to do. Roddy Ho is the computer whiz, uber-geek and the butt of everyone’s jokes, not just Lamb’s. He’s ineffectual, arrogant and completely unaware of his failings. Special offer is good for three months after the first activation of the eligible device. One offer per Family Sharing group. Plans automatically renew until cancelled. Other restrictions and terms apply; visit apple.com/promo for more information. Taverner meets with Lamb and reveals Ahmed is the nephew of the second-in-command of Pakistani Military Intelligence. His kidnapping and intended rescue is an unsanctioned false-flag operation masterminded by Taverner herself to potentially increase cooperation with Pakistan as well as neutralise and intimidate the far-right. She claims to have an operative embedded with the Sons of Albion who organised the kidnapping but will also facilitate the rescue. It is also revealed that Standish narrowly escaped a treason charge through her links with Partner and his death.Herron (Down Cemetery Road, 2009, etc.) provides a dour, twisty spy thriller with something for everyone: part post–Cold War miasma, part James Bond heroics, and elliptical withal. Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Rade Serbedzija as Nikolai Katinsky, a former KGB agent living in exile in London after defecting at the end of the Cold War. I’m going to start by stating the obvious, for most people, that Slough House is where all the MI5 rejects go. These hapless spooks spend their time pushing paper and generally just killing time until retirement or resignation, which ever come first, arrives. Dead Lions] features some of the twistiest plotlines in crime fiction…[and] is beautifully written but also elegantly structured . . . Ever since finishing Slow Horses, I’ve been waiting for a possible sequel. Now that it’s here, I have the pleasure of experiencing it, along with the pang of having finished it.”