Dead Lions: 2 - Brossura

Herron, Mick

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1616953675 ISBN 13: 9781616953676

Casa editrice: Soho Crime, 2014

Riassunto

The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. 

The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts. 

But the head of Slough House, the 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

"A novel of booze-soaked, washed-up MI5 spies getting back into the action. Almost a spoof Le Carré, really the most enormous fun." --The Bookseller

L'autore

Mick Herron is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of six books in the Slough House series (Slow Horses, Dead Lions, Real Tigers, Spook Street, London Rules, and the novella The List) and four Oxford mysteries (Down Cemetery Road, The Last Voice You Hear, Why We Die, and Smoke and Whispers), as well as the standalone novels Reconstruction, Nobody Walks and This Is What Happened. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.

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• Editore: Soho Crime
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1616953675
• ISBN 13: 9781616953676
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 384