Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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Meanwhile, Dander and Longridge are fired by Lamb, and River comforts his grandfather, who is suffering from memory lapses. He warns River that if MI5 are using Slough House to look into Hobden, it is because there is risk and they want plausible deniability.

A crackle of static and the voice died, though could faintly be heard continuing to broadcast in neighbouring carriages.There is one moment that nearly made me stop reading the book and give up: he doesn’t just drink in front of the recovering alcoholic Catherine; he doesn’t just offer her a drink; he pours and places a drink in front of her! It did not come as a huge surprise that these two plots were connected by the end of the novel, even if it felt just a little forced.

But when he forgets that secrets are supposed to stay hidden, there’s suddenly a target on his back. Having squeezed through the ticket barriers on the other side, it hassled the station staff, who placated, argued, and pointed at the exits. The clues point to a Russian spy “legend” who inspired stories but was never thought to truly exist, Alexander Popov. Herron cleverly brings Cold War echos into the present When a message is found on Dickie’s phone, hinting that a Soviet sleeper op is being run, the slow horses go live.The spy world is described as a “mirror game”, a protest as a “rainbow coalition of the pissed off”. 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. Usually by this time, just after six thirty, all sharp edges would have been smoothed away: he’d have been up since twelve, after five hours’ stormy shut-eye. Some distance off, an ascending sequence of red lights indicated the mast at Didcot, but the cooling towers were invisible.