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. Dickie Bow used to be a bottom-feeding British intelligence agent operating in Berlin in the 1980s.
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