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Sto caricando le informazioni... Dead Lions (Slough House, #2) (edizione 2015)di Mick Herron
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Author is winner of multiple awards for the Slough House Novels series. Features washed-up MI 5 spies trying to redeem their careers. Slow and complicated but I think better than the first. Lamb is still an annoying character to read, but at least here we're getting some insight into the way he thinks. Very clever plotting with many RedHerrings along the way. It doesn't feature internal politics so much, and the events are perhaps more linear than the first book. An old Berlin hand turns up dead in an unusual spot. The Slow Horses investigate who he might have been involved with. The links go back to before the Berlin Wall came down and the old USSR days. But convincing anybody of the importance is a different matter entirely. This is your classic slow burner of a book, please don't get me wrong in no way is the book boring. Clever engaging and interesting from the start, but about half way through I could not turn the pages quick enough, as the mystery suspense and tension ratcheted up. Quality writing and superb characterisation throughout. Completely and utterly recommended.
In the opening chapter of Herron’s funny, clever sequel to 2010’s Slow Horses (2010), low-level British spy, Dickie Bow, dies on a bus to Oxford of apparently natural causes. To Jackson Lamb, the thoroughly unlikable head of Slough House (“the spooks’ equivalent of Devil’s Island,” to which disgraced or out-of-favor British spies are exiled), Bow’s death plus a cryptic, unsent text keyed into his cellphone (the single word “cicadas”) suggest Russian intrigue, perhaps tied to a long-dormant, possibly mythical, spy named Alexander Popov. Meanwhile, two Slough House operatives are seconded to the job of protecting a Russian billionaire, Arkady Pashkin, in London for a nebulous meeting. The complex plot drags a bit in the middle, as Herron gets quite a number of balls in the air, but once he does, the narrative picks up real steam and becomes genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose. È contenuto inPremi e riconoscimenti
Fiction.
Mystery.
Thriller.
HTML: 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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