They are led by the irascible snide, Jackson Lamb, who after years in intelligence knows where all the bodies are buried and how to play the game. It’s central cast are a handful of misfit intelligence workers who have been reassigned to Slough House for various misdemeanours, some personal (alcoholic, gambler, anger management), some operational (messed up an operation). A skilled political operator with a nose for intrigue and deception, Lamb sniffs trouble and soon finds it.ĭead Lions is a modern day spy story set in London and the home counties.
Something is not quite right about the operation, but both are looking for a route out of Slough House. Two of the team, however, have been seconded to help facilitate the recruitment of a Russian billionaire with political ambitions.
His interest piqued, Lamb starts to investigate using his team of misfits. An unsent message on Dickie’s phone points to Alexander Popov, a master spy that the British had discounted as a fake profile, and a network of deep sleeping moles. Nobody is suspicious about his death except Jackson Lamb, head of Slough House, a dumping ground for washed up intelligence workers. Only Dickie never completes the journey, being found dead on a replacement rail bus travelling between Reading and Oxford. When he spots one of his old time Russian rivals he decides to shadow him. To unearth Dickie’s dying secret Jackson Lamb and his crew of no-hopers is about to go live.Dickie Bow used to be a bottom-feeding British intelligence agent operating in Berlin in the 1980s. Once a spook, always a spook, and Dickie was one of their own. Now Lamb’s got his phone, on it the last secret Dickie ever told, and reason to believe an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service’s back-yard.
Good at following people, bringing home their secrets. Not an obvious target for assassination, Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker back in the day. A former spook has turned up dead on a bus. In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where spies mockingly called the slow horses are sent to finish what is left of their careers, their boss Jackson Lamb is on his way Oxford. ‘The new king of the spy thriller’ Mail on Sunday *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman*
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