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Title:
Dead Lions
Series: Slough House #2
Author:
Mick Herron
Rating: 3.5 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Thriller
Pages: 286
Words:
104K
Publish: 2013
Another
enjoyable ride on the Screwup Train. Herron (the author) kills off
another character and I was rather surprised. I guess it means that
none of the sub-characters are safe and I should expect somebody from
Slough House to die in each story. That has the added benefit, for
the author, of allowing him to bring on new screwups in each new
book, even if they don’t play a big part. They are new fodder.
Also on the plus side, River Carter also plays a much smaller part. He’s just one among the 5 or 6. I was able to handle that.
★★★✬☆
From the Publisher
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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