As the agents dig into the circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. Slough House's head honcho, the despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their washed-up careers. And most of them would do anything to get there-even if it means having to collaborate with one another. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle-not unusual in this line of work. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Mick was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in Oxford. The "slow horses," as they're called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. The second Jackson Lamb novel, Dead Lions, won the 2013 CWA Goldsboro Gold Dagger, and was picked by the Sunday Times as one of the best 25 crime novels of the past five years. London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers.
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