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  • Slough House, Book 2
  • By: Mick Herron
  • Narrated by: Seán Barrett
  • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (329 ratings)

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Dead Lions

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Seán Barrett
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London’s Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their washed-up careers. Now they have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. Slough House’s head honcho, the despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered.

As the agents dig into the circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets that seem to lead back to a man named Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman or the most dangerous man in the world. How many more people will have to die to keep those secrets buried?

©2013 Mick Herron (P)2014 Isis Publishing Ltd

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Awesome read

Another great novel in what fast becoming a new favourite of mine

I am looking forward to the next instalment

Great narration as always by Sean Barrett

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Jackson Lamb is a great character and I can’t wait to see Gary Oldham play him . It’s a well put together story the characters are solid with good personality and the narrator did a good job

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complete crime fiction.

great characterisation, economy of language and excellent plot.
perfection in the art of crime fiction.

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Loving this series

Really enjoyed the second instalment in the Slow Horses series. Agree with some of the other comments though, that on occasion the transition between chapters is a bit fast and can cause some confusion.

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An absolute stand out and engrossing from start to finish.

I liked that it reminded me of Le carré only edgier. Full of wit and an excellent sense of what happens in MI5.

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Immersive experience thanks to skilled voice actor narrating quality work.

I find listening to stories a very soothing and exciting experience. If the reader is a skilled story teller and has the expertise to provide accents, inflections and drama, I can go with them into suspending my disbelief wholly.
This was a wonderful experience. The only part I didn’t enjoy was, when the text flipped from one time and place to another, the edit didn’t provide a pause for us to expect it. Additionally, sometimes there wasn’t enough change or modulation from the narrator to help us realise that this has just happened. If the narrator paused in his reading of it, the edit has removed any significant pause. For a smooth adjustment for the listener, this needs to be refined.
It’s a small but significant annoyance.
Well done on a brilliant job.

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Another cracker of a story

Another great Slough House novel - fabulously narrated. Full of tension and the right amount of cutting humour.

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Masterful, thirst-satisfying spy fiction.

OK. Confession.
I found Mick Herron only because I searched on Sean Barrett. It's what I do with my top-tier audiobook narrators when I'm looking for a new read, because it comes with the territory: Audiobook narrators make or break the experience. And Sean B is right up there with Dick Hill, Will Paton etc. My audiobook narrator Hall-of-Fame' ers who have given me countless hours of brilliant enjoyment. So why not search via them?
And you have to admit that "Mick Herron" sounds more "Mickey Spillane" than "John Le Carre".
Well... serendipity does happen.
I've recently been burned by thinking I've found an author to partially fill the JlC void in my soul. It was Matthew Richardson, and I was severely let down. So I approached Mick Herron with great suspicion, but attracted by the "bunch of losers" blurb, a trope that always promises fun.
I read Slow Horses (Book 1), and though "Wow!". Spy-writing skill is a balancing act: Believability, pace, dialogue, story arc, character likeability, twists that are just right, scene-setting for the future ... every piece has to be *just* right. And it was. But I thought it may be too good to be true, after crashing and burning with Richardson's second and third novels.
So I approached Dead Lions braced for disappointment.
And right from the start, it was like climbing aboard a bus of real people, Eccentric, foibled, but supremely engaging. A group who then take you on a ride that was even better than the first enjoyable encounter.
Mick Herron - you have not needed to fill my le Carre void, because your writing has installed your own shelf in my reading universe. Wonderfully entertaining, and I agree with every great review here. Hidden gem indeed.
And please...pretty please... NEVER give Slough House to anyone but Mr Sean Barrett. He is usually phoneme-perfection - but with the wonderfully fascinating denizens of Slough House he is at stratopheric brilliant best.
Jackson Lamb is the overweight, farting (sorry!), anti-hero that I never expected to delight in. And much of that is thanks to Mr Barrett.
I'd already be into the next SH novel - but I have to pace myself. This is too delectable to gorge oneself on.

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Superb - a great listen

As part of the slough house saga this story is excellent - exquisite characterizations and perfect narration bring the characters and the action to life

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A well written well read - Excellent Language George Smiley Lives

The language style in this book is excellent reminiscent of a kind that Le Carrie might pen. In fact some of the characters might well have worked with George Smiley. It’s capacity for the capturing the aging players of the cold war’s end and the ongoing despair of the life of the intelligence services.

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