![]() ![]() Dead Lions won the 2013 Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award. ![]() Mick Herron has taken a clever scenario - an office where MI5 shunts its inept or embarrassing operatives - and spun it around to create a critically acclaimed series of novels. ![]() At first, it looked like an accident, but the woman driving the car had some dubious friends in her past.Īn unlikely double assassination or unrelated tragedies? Review Here is a man the security services would love to have in their pocket.īut then one of the chaperones dies whilst riding his bicycle blind drunk. Pashkin, one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs, could be destined for the Kremlin. He had made his way from London to an obscure village in the Cotswolds, nestled beside an abandoned American airbase and then disappeared back to Moscow via Gatwick airport.Īt the same time, an ambitious MI5 operative clad in a pinstripe suit has seconded two of Lamb’s staff to chaperone Arkady Pashkin. Lamb and his team uncover the trail of a Russian spy. When a long-retired cold war agent, Dickie Bow, is found dead on a coach to Oxford, Jackson Lamb decides he should investigate. ![]()
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