Dead Lions - Rilegato

Herron, Mick

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ISBN 10: 1616952253 ISBN 13: 9781616952259

Casa editrice: Soho Crime, 2013

Riassunto

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there-even if it means having to collaborate with one another.

Now the slow horses have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. The despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's 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. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?

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Recensione

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." --CWA ceremony

'I am looking foward to... [the CWA] Gold winner, Mick Herron's Dead Lions.' --Sarah Broadhurt in The Bookseller

'A deserving winner of this year s prestigious CWA Gold Dagger and a book we awarded five stars, Dead Lions is a thriller with a comic touch.' --Crime Fiction Lover

'This clever and funny send-up of the spy thriller won this year's CWA Gold Dagger for the best work of crime fiction... Some good plots lurk behind the satire, not least the search for a Russian super-spy who may or may not exist.' --Best crime fiction of the year in The Times

'This clever and funny send-up of the spy thriller won this year's CWA Gold Dagger for the best work of crime fiction... Some good plots lurk behind the satire, not least the search for a Russian super-spy who may or may not exist.' --Best crime fiction of the year in The Times

L'autore

Mick Herron was born in Newcastle and has a degree in English from Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of two books in the Slough House series,Slow Horses and Dead Lions, as well as the standalone thriller Nobody Walks,and the novella The List. His work has been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, and Shamus Awards, and he has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel. He lives in Oxford and works in London.

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• Editore: Soho Crime
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1616952253
• ISBN 13: 9781616952259
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 347