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The past and the present walk into a bar

Dead Lions by Mick Herron

December 14, 2024 by Zirza Leave a Comment

Slough House: a grimy station across from London’s Barbican Estate, tucked away above a Chinese restaurant that’s perpetually closed. It’s where MI5-rejects are sent in the hopes that they will quit, thus saving the service the headache of firing them. Against all odds, it has been drafted in protecting a visiting Russian oligarch with whom the British government is interested in striking a deal, or at least set up some sort of connection the way governments do. Two Slow Horses are ordered to babysit, though […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Dead Lions, mick herron, Slough House, Slough House #2, Slow Horses

Zirza's CBR16 Review No:65 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Dead Lions, mick herron, Slough House, Slough House #2, Slow Horses ·
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Thanksgiving 2024 Leftovers

Remembrance Day by Henry Porter

Dead Lions by Mick Herron

Zero Days by Ruth Ware

Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman

Killing Castro by Lawrence Block

Deadly Beloved by Max Allan Collins

Spy Hook by Len Deighton

London Rules by Mick Herron

Real Tigers by Mick Herron

November 27, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. Remembrance Day**** An interesting take on the English-vs-Irish spy novel and while the author telegraphs too many things, he knows how to keep a story moving. Barely clears the 4-star threshold but if I invest time to read something almost 500 pages long, it has to be at least “good” and this was. Dead Lions, Real Tigers, and London Rules**** I had originally meant to do a big long post on my love/grr relationship with Mick Herron’s Slough House […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bernard Samson, Chicago, Clay McLeod Chapman, Dead Lions, Deadly Beloved, domestic surveillance, England, espionage, hard case crime, Henry Porter, historical fiction, horror, Ireland, Killing Castro, lawrence block, Len Deighton, London Rules, Max Allan Collins, MI-5, MI-6, mick herron, Ms Tree, mystery, Real Tigers, Religion, Remembrance Day, Russia, Ruth Ware, Satan Panic, Slough House, Slow Horses, Spy Hook, terrorism, The Troubles, thriller, Virginia, Whisper down the lane, Zero Days

Jake's CBR16 Review No:186 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bernard Samson, Chicago, Clay McLeod Chapman, Dead Lions, Deadly Beloved, domestic surveillance, England, espionage, hard case crime, Henry Porter, historical fiction, horror, Ireland, Killing Castro, lawrence block, Len Deighton, London Rules, Max Allan Collins, MI-5, MI-6, mick herron, Ms Tree, mystery, Real Tigers, Religion, Remembrance Day, Russia, Ruth Ware, Satan Panic, Slough House, Slow Horses, Spy Hook, terrorism, The Troubles, thriller, Virginia, Whisper down the lane, Zero Days ·
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    It makes me wonder about The Silence of the Wilting Skin. What seems to be the first book.
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    on I think I’m finally ready to quit you
    I've read every other book in the series and I couldn't get through this one at all, it reads like...
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    Interesting. I could not fathom writing about the same characters in the same way for that long.
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    on So close
    Yeah. Hopefully the next book is all polished.
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