Dead Lions, like Slow Horses before it, is a pretty understated, British, spy novel (and I maintain that there's a lot they have in common with portal fantasies). There's a definite irreverential quality to this series - both book refuse to take too much seriously, including themselves. At the same time, though, there's real stakes, and the potential for things to go wrong isn't understated. How those two qualities don't clash is a tribute to the author and his ability to balance mood like a tightrope walker - it's a quality that tends to pop up in British media, that dark light-heartedness, and when it's done well it's so satisfying. Diana “Lady Di” Taverner – She keeps a finger on all the plotters plots at MI5 with the hope that one of them will propel her to the top job. Olivia Cooke as Sidonie "Sid" Baker (season 1), a competent MI5 agent inexplicably assigned to Slough House. Shirley Dander and Marcus Longridge are the odd couple, though they’re not even a couple. She was in comms at The Park before she laid out a co-worker, and also has addiction issues. He used to break down doors and carry a gun before his gambling problems compromised him. That woodlouse: it had scuttered about in evident fear, and at the last second had thrown itself into the flames below, as if death were preferable to the moments spent waiting for it.

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. A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read.

James “Spider” Webb – Schemer and dreamer who unrealistically sees himself climbing the ladder past many people much better at scheming than him. See “Diana Taverner” And yes, he could. Lamb could. He runs the slow horses, the has-been or the might-have-been spies who’ve been relegated to spook limbo in Slough House where the heavies in MI5 and Regent Park hope they’ll get bored and resign. We are introduced to a bunch of new characters, including a gaggle of Russians and some locals in a quiet English village called Upshott.

Much more assured than "Slow Horses", with good pacing, interesting expansion of the main characters, and a good central mystery. Great stuff!" Ho, Dander and Standish deduce that Chernitsky never left the UK, and just planted his phone in the luggage of a touring folk band at the airport. Using his cover as a journalist from The Times, River befriends Kelly, the daughter of the suspected sleeper agent Duncan Tropper. He discovers through her that Tropper and his wife Alex used to be student radicals who moved to the village from London. The family invite him to dinner and introduce him to their visiting friend Leo, who is actually Chernitsky. Lamb smells a rat, a big dead one. The paper pushing is put on hold and the hapless Slow Horses go into action. It soon become obvious, when one of their own ends up dead, that this is no minor event. Stranger still, to Lamb, is that the top brass seem to be hell bent on a cover up.

Slow Horses' Renewed Through Season 4 at Apple TV+". The Hollywood Reporter. 1 June 2022 . Retrieved 17 June 2022.

href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{5D9AB3D4-30A4-4647-91F7-5ECE27D2D0D0}Img100.jpg Katherine Waterston as Alison Dunn, a MI5 agent who uncovers a dark secret at the heart of the agency [7] Filming of the first series began on 30 November 2020 in England, and continued into February 2021, with Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas spotted on set in Westminster, London. [10] In July 2021, filming continued in Stroud, Gloucestershire. [11] It was originally intended to film earlier in 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [12] [10] Dead Lions is the second in the Slough House series, which is based on disgraced MI5 agents called slow horses. Most of the slow horses from the first book are here, along with the addition of two new ones. It seems there is a good supply of them. Herron provides a dour, twisty spy thriller with something for everyone: part post–Cold War miasma, part James Bond heroics, and elliptical withal.”

In 2003, Heron published his first novel, Down Cemetery Road. It was the first volume in a four-book series about Zoë Boehm, an Oxford private detective. [4]