Mick Herron

Hva skjer når en gammel spion mister vettet? Har tjenesten et aldershjem for de som vet for mye, og ikke husker at de er hemmelige? Eller tar noen seg av den senile spionen for godt? Dette er spørsmål River Cartwright må stille når bestefaren, en agent fra den kalde krigen, glemmer å bruke bukser og mistenker at alle i livet hans er sendt av tjenesten for å ta ham. Men Cartwright har også andre ting å bekymre seg for. En bombe går av midt i et travelt kjøpesenter og dreper førti uskyldige sivile. Agentene i Slough House, med Jackson Lamb i spissen, må finne ut hvem som står bak terroren før situasjonen eskalerer. Agentene er fjerde frittstående bok i serien om Jackson Lamb.

Dead Lions is the second book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies, led by Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)

From the bestselling and award winning 'master of the spy thriller' comes a collection of riveting short stories

*A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.*Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.Roddy Ho is used to being the one the slow horses turn to when they need miracles performed, and he's always been Jackson Lamb's Number Two. So when Lamb has a photograph that needs doctoring, it's Ho he entrusts with the task. Christmas is a time for memories, but Lamb doesn't do memories - or so he says. But what is it about the photo that makes him want to alter it? How would the slow horses cope if Roddy Ho didn't exist? And most importantly of all, are the team having Christmas drinks, and if so, where?Standing by the Wall offers a glimpse into the kind of seasonal merriment you might expect at Slough House, where the boss generally marks the festive season with an increase in hostilities. But then, this is the secret service, not Secret Santa. And the slow horses aren't here to enjoy themselves.Roddy Roddy Roddy? Ho Ho Ho!

At last in one volume: the collected Slough House spy novellas, including the never-before-published Christmas interlude Standing by the Wall. Espionage. Blackmail. Revenge. Cunning. Slapstick. State secrets dating back to the fall of the Berlin Wall. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, CWA Gold Dagger-winning author of Slow Horses. From the troubled recruitment of a new MI5 informant to a botched information transfer, Herron's novellas capture the drama, humor, and high stakes of everyday life in the world of spycraft, a world rife with both legends and secrets, where thrill-seeking and loneliness are ubiquitous and deadly, and where the lines between friends, enemies, and lovers are perpetually blurred by circumstance and subterfuge. For fans new and old, Standing by the Wall is an excellent introduction to the extended literary universe of Mick Herron's Slow Horses. Collection includes: The List, The Marylebone Drop, The Catch, The Last Dead Letter, and Standing by the Wall.

Nogen forsøger at slå Roddy Ho ihjel. Hans kolleger ville ikke betragte hans død som det største tab for menneskeheden, men Roddy hører til i Slough House hos Jackson Lambs lille flok af udrangerede spioner, kaldt Slagteheste, og trods interne kriser og splid passer de på hinanden. Så de går i aktion for at finde ud af, hvem der stræber Roddy efter livet, og i den proces bliver de igen opmærksomme på deres største kollektive styrke: At gøre en slem situation meget, meget værre.

CWA Gold and Steel Dagger-winner Mick Herron's short fiction, collected for the first time. Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, is on his way to becoming one of the most critically acclaimed and culturally important crime fiction writers of the twenty-first century. He has been awarded both the Gold and Steel Daggers by the Crime Writers' Association and has been called "the John Le Carr of the future" (BBC). But Mick Herron does more than "just" write flawlessly suspenseful spy thrillers. He is a craftist of the highest order, irrepressibly versatile in form (novels, novellas, short fiction) and mood (witty, taut, spooky, laugh-out-loud funny), whose "efficient, darkly witty, tipped-with-imagery sentences . . . feel purpose-built to perforate our] private daze of illiteracy" (The Atlantic). Now, for the first time, Herron's short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin Junction, devoted fans and future converts alike will find much to amuse, delight, and terrify them. Five standalone nerve-rackingly thrilling crime fiction stories are complemented by four mystery stories featuring the Oxford wife-and-husband detective team of shrewd Zo Boehm and hapless Joe Silvermann. The collection also includes a peek into the past of Jackson Lamb, irascible top agent at Slough House.

'A first-rate modern thriller' Daily MailSet in the same world as Mick Herron's bestselling Slough House thrillers, Nobody Walks introduces JK Coe, a fledgling spy who's about to get a harsh lesson in the realities of life on Spook StreetTom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead - Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking pot.Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home to London to find out the truth about his son's death. But more than a few people are interested to hear Bettany is back in town, from incarcerated mob bosses to those in the highest echelons of MI5. And some of them - like JK Coe - will have cause to regret his reappearance.Bettany might have thought he'd left it all behind when he first skipped town, but nobody ever really walks away.

The TV tie-in edition for Slow Horses, the critically acclaimed first book in Mick Herron's bestselling Slough House series, now a major Apple TV series starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron's Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022***'A gripping thriller' Ian Rankin****Slough House - the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the 'slow horses', are banished - has been wiped from secret service records.Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they've been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening.With a new populist movement taking a grip on London's streets, the aftermath of a blunder by the Russian secret service that left a British citizen dead, and the old order ensuring that everything's for sale to the highest bidder, the world's an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the troubles to pass.But the slow horses aren't famed for making wise decisions.'The most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley' The Times'An absolute tour-de-force' Sunday Express

The sixth book in the Sunday Times bestselling, award-winning, Slough House series, featuring Mick Herron's much loved band of disgraced spies and their notorious leader, Jackson Lamb, 'the most fascinating and irresistible thriller series hero to emerge since Jack Reacher' (Sunday Times)

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron's Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*'Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation' Val McDermid'The best thriller writer in Britain today' Sunday Express****At Regent's Park, the Intelligence Service HQ, new First Desk Claude Whelan is learning the job the hard way.Tasked with protecting a beleaguered Prime Minister, he's facing attack from all directions: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who's alert for Claude's every stumble. Meanwhile, the country's being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks.Over at Slough House, the last stop for washed up spies, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they're about to rediscover their greatest strength - making a bad situation much, much worse.'Dazzlingly inventive' Sunday Times

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron's Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*'A terrific spy novel' Ian Rankin'A modern masterpiece' Irish Times****Twenty years retired from the Intelligence Service, David Cartwright still knows where all the bones are buried. But when he forgets that secrets are supposed to stay hidden, there's suddenly a target on his back.The 'Old Bastard' raised his grandson to be a hero, not a slow horse. Now, far from joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is part of Jackson Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House. Which doesn't mean he won't ditch everything and go rogue when his grandfather comes under threat.Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day, and knows better than most that this is no innocent old man. So when a panic button raises the alarm at Intelligence Service HQ, it's Lamb who's called on to identify the body. And it's Lamb who'll do whatever's necessary to protect an agent in peril.'Outstanding' Daily Telegraph

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron's Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*'The finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years' Metro'Masterful' Daily Mail'A pulsating spy thriller' Daily Express****Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies, former high-fliers now dubbed the 'slow horses'. Catherine Standish, one of their number, worked in Regent's Park long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back, and she's known Jackson Lamb long enough to have learned that old sins cast long shadows. And she also knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks, even recovering drunks whose careers have crashed and burned.What she doesn't know is why anyone would target her.So whoever's holding her hostage, it can't be personal. It must be about Slough House. Most likely, it's about Jackson Lamb. And say what you like about Lamb, he'll never leave a joe in the lurch.He might even be someone you could trust with your life.

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron's Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carré - is a terrific thing' Gary Oldman****Spooks are supposed to be stealthy . . . But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House.This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal. In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action.So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. And unless they can prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public execution is going to echo round the world.'The most enjoyable British spy novel in years' Mail on Sunday'The new spy master' Evening Standard

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron's Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham****From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now.On Dickie's phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Intelligence Service's back-yard. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets.Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.'The spycraft of le Carré refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times

Andra boken i Slough House-serien VINNARE: CWA GOLD DAGGER - BÄSTA KRIMINALROMANÅrets thriller - The Times En av de senaste 50 årens bästa kriminalromaner och thrillers Sunday Times »Milleniets bästa nya kriminalserie.« | Mail on SundayDe missanpassade MI5-agenterna i Slough House kallas in för att skydda en besökande rysk oligark som man hoppas kunna rekrytera till den brittiska säkerhetstjänsten. Men samtidigt som två agenter skickas i väg på detta simpla jobb hittas en äldre spion död på en buss utanför Oxford, långt från sitt vanliga revir. Mannen är Dickie Bow, aktiv under kalla kriget.Chefen för Slough House, den hetlevrade Jackson Lamb, är övertygad om att Dickie Bow blev mördad. Och när agenterna börjar gräva i sin fallna kamrats förflutna upptäcker de en dunkel triangel av hemligheter som tycks leda till en viss Alexander Popov. Är han ett sovjetiskt spöke? Eller världens just nu farligaste man? Hur många fler ska behöva dö för att de välbevarade hemligheterna ska skyddas? MICK HERRON är en bästsäljande brittisk thrillerförfattare, mest känd för sin Slough House-serie, som som bland annat belönats med CWA:s Gold Dagger. Döda lejon är den andra boken i serien. En TV-serie baserad på boken med titeln Slow Horses produceras av Apple, med Gary Oldman i huvudrollen. »En exceptionellt smart pastisch på den klassiska brittiska spionromanen.« | Crime Writers Association »Storbritanniens nya thrillermästare.« | Sunday Times »Vår generations John Le Carré.« | Val McDermid

Selv om han har været pensioneret fra sit topjob i efterretningstjenesten i tyve år, kender David Cartwright stadig skeletterne i skabet. Men da han glemmer, at hemmeligheder skal forblive hemmeligheder, er der pludselig nogen, der stræber ham efter livet.Hans barnebarn, River, henslæber sit liv som ‘slagtehest’, en af de fallerede agenter, som skubber rundt på ligegyldige papirdynger i Slough House, Jackson Lambs forhutlede kongerige for degraderede spioner. Men med bedstefaren i livsfare kaster River alle fortøjninger og går i aktion for at finde ud af, hvorfra truslen mod ham stammer.Jackson Lamb arbejdede i sin tid for David Cartwright og ved bedre end de fleste, hvilke lyssky affærer den gamle mand var involveret i. Så da Rivers færden får alarmklokkerne til at ringe i efterretningstjenestens hovedkvarter, vil Lamb gøre alt, hvad han kan, for at beskytte en agent i fare.