Praise for Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb series: *. 'Mick Herron is an incredible writer' Mark Billingham 'The spycraft of le Carre refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller's Catch-22' Financial Times Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn't mean you can't uncover secrets. 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. But he's not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. *Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* 'The new king of the spy thriller' Mail on Sunday 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.
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