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Mick Gerron has been called the "John Le Carre of our time" and the new hope of British literature, compared to Raymond Chandler and Kingsley Amis, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, Elmore Leonard and Joseph Heller. Gerron's novels are "ridiculous, bordering on farcical, amazingly cynical caricature of politicians, functionaries, internecine squabbling and the Great Game" (Booklist), while "lame horses", they are weaklings from the Slough Tower, are misguided counterintelligence officers punished "for addiction to drugs, alcohol or debauchery; for intrigue and betrayal; for discontent and doubts; and also for an unforgivable oversight." Watching over them is Jackson Lam, "The Falstaff of Our Day" (Sunday Times) and "one of the most monstrous characters in modern literature" (Bernard Cornwell). But, as you know, there are no former "clerical" ones, and every weakling, doing meaningless office work, dreams of justifying himself, returning to operational work in Regent's Park. And when terrorists kidnap a teenager and threaten to cut off his head live on YouTube, the weaklings are not going to sit idly by... A television series was launched based on the first books of the Slough Tower cycle (two seasons at once), filming was carried out in 2020–2021 gg. The role of Jackson Lam was played by Gary Oldman, the series also starred Jack Lowden, Olivia Cooke, Jonathan Pryce, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christopher Cheung. The first season was directed by James Howes (Merlin, Black Mirror, Doctor Who, The Alienist, Raised by Wolves).

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Publication language: Russian

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