badly, or got in the way of an ambitious colleague. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottleânot unusual in this line of work. One thing these failed spies have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action.
Now the Slow Horses have a chance at redemption. An old Cold Warâera spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. As the agents dig in to their fallen comrade's circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of
ancient Cold War secrets. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?
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- ISBN: 9781705072509
- File size: 328818 KB
- Duration: 11:25:02
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Publisher's Weekly
Starred review from February 25, 2013
In the opening chapter of Herronâs funny, clever sequel to 2010âs 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 (âthe spooksâ equivalent of Devilâs Island,â to which disgraced or out-of-favor British spies are exiled), Bowâs death plus a cryptic, unsent text keyed into his cellphone (the single word âcicadasâ) 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. Agent: Juliet Burton, Juliet Burton Literary Agency (U.K.)
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