Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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Lamb meets with Taverner and convinces her to fund a fake ID and cover package for River, who he then meets and instructs to investigate the airfield and its owner, Duncan Tropper. He may have been a washed-up operative, but he had been one of the family, so to speak, in the old days, and Lamb decides to investigate.

They suspected that Jackson Lamb had serious dope on Diana Taverner; enough that, if she wasn't his sock puppet, she was at least in his debt.Taverner manipulates Struan into giving false evidence that Lamb was the mastermind behind the false flag operation involving Black, instead of her.

These characters are further developed, and they interact more as most of the characters get more page time in this installment. In the aftermath, Tearney and Judd are forced to resign, with Taverner assuming Tearney’s place as First Desk. As I said, Slow Horses had set a very high standard as its plot played just within its cynical parameters of reality. This next venture into the Slough House realm, which consists of misfits/failures/alcoholics of the MI5 calibre, was a busy one. Showrunner Will Smith has stated that the fourth season should be released by the end of December 2024.This is a complex, multilayered plot that unfolds carefully to pull all the threads together into a thrilling conclusion with enough twists and underhand deals to keep you guessing. Olivia Cooke as Sidonie "Sid" Baker (season 1), a competent MI5 agent inexplicably assigned to Slough House.

So the Service bunged the useless into some godforsaken annex and threw paperwork at them, an administrative harassment intended to make them hand in their cards. She claims to have an operative embedded with the Sons of Albion who organised the kidnapping but will also facilitate the rescue. Curly prepares to kill Hassan outside what he believes is a Norman castle, which Ahmed points out is actually a folly.Taverner meets with Lamb and reveals Ahmed is the nephew of the second-in-command of Pakistani Military Intelligence. Lamb and his team flee the property before the "Dogs" (MI5 security personnel) arrive, knowing that since the operation has not gone to plan that Slough House will be blamed. Still not off their prime, well trained, motivated but cursing themselves for having erred majorly on some assignment or the other. The main characters are well drawn and the reader has a choice of who they identify with, if at all.

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.And he left a one-word message in the drafts folder of his cellphone: “cicadas,” a reference to rumored Soviet sleeper cells in England’s green and pleasant land.