Dead Lions
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Dead Lions
14.99 €
11.99 €
Mick Herron has been called "the John Le Carré 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. Herron's novels are "a funny, borderline farcical, marvelously cynical caricature of politicians, functionaries, internecine squabbling, and the Big Game" (Booklist), and his heroes (the "lame horses," aka the weaklings of Slough Tower) are defective counterintelligence officers punished "for addiction to drugs, alcohol, or debauchery ; "for intrigue and treachery; for dissatisfaction and doubt; and for an unpardonable oversight. Supervising them is Jackson Lamb, "the Falstaff of our day" (Sunday Times) and "one of the most monstrous characters in modern literature" (Bernard Cornwell). In the second novel in the series, Dead Lions, an old acquaintance of Lam's from his days serving in Berlin, a former informant named Dickie Bowe, dies on a bus on the way to Oxford; and not only does his death look suspicious, but on his cell phone Lam finds an unsent message with one word: "Cicadas." Which means there's a chance that the mythical deep-conspiracy agent network isn't so mythical after all. But MI5 is not up to that, counterintelligence is paralyzed by the "audit, which is more like the Inquisition", and to deal with the "Cicadas" and their mythical (or still not mythical?) leader will have to Lam and his "lame horses" ... On the first books of the series "Slough Tower" launched into production TV series (two seasons at once), shooting was conducted in 2020-2021. The role of Jackson Lamb was played by Gary Oldman, and the series also starred Jack Lowden, Olivia Cooke, Jonathan Pryce, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christopher Cheung. The director of the first season was James Howes ("Merlin", "Black Mirror", "Dr. Who", "The Alienist", "Raised by Wolves"). For the first time in Russian!
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Big Novel