Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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Meanwhile Min Harper and Louisa Guy have been commandeered by Spider Webb at Regent's Park as security for a supposed Russian oligarch. The “slow horses” have all fallen from grace, either through their own screw ups or because they got in the way of someone else’s climb up the ladder. When Dickie Bow dies at the back of a bus, everyone assumes the old alcoholic shuffled off this mortal coil naturally. It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder.

The Service, like everyone else was hamstrung by rules and regulations: sack the useless, and they take you to tribunal for discriminating against useless people. Lights from houseboats pooled on the river’s surface, illuminating a pair of canoes which whipped out of sight even as Dickie Bow registered them: two frail crafts built for speed, furrowing the water on a chilly March evening. He alleges when stationed in East Berlin that he overheard Popov demanding the cicada program remain funded after the fall of the Soviet Union.Slow Horses is based on the novel of the same name by Mick Herron, which is part of the author's Slough House series.

The Russians cut the session short when a friend visits, and afterwards Min is killed when supposedly struck accidentally by a car as he is cycling home drunk. Dead Lions was the winner of the Gold Dagger Award at the CWA ceremony (24 October) The judges commented that novel is a "Well written, wickedly clever send-up of the classic British spy novel. Slough House isn't the name of a building but an epithet for a particular branch of MI5, Britain's Secret Service (aka "Regent's Park" after their primary location).The two report this finding to Lamb, who secures River's release from MI5 and sends him with Guy to Chieftain's headquarters, where they discover that Webb had been working with Chieftain the entire time. Slough House Book 1: Slough House, a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up through drunkenness, ineptitude, and betrayal. Believing he was targeted also, Lamb investigates the driver, Rebecca, and discovers she previously lived in Vladivostok.