Dead Lions: Slough House Thriller 2

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White, Peter (15 November 2019). "Gary Oldman To Star In Spy Drama 'Slow Horses' For Apple With 'Justified's Graham Yost Exec Producing". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 7 September 2020 . Retrieved 26 January 2021.

imprint Soho Crime publishDate 2013-05-07T00:00:00-04:00 isOwnedByCollections True title Dead Lions fullDescription Nobody Walks (2015)– this book uses some of the Slough House world and characters, but it's not officially part of the series

Unfortunately, having secrets can be a very bad thing, even if you're that far down the spy ladder. Morgan, Anna (7 November 2023). " 'Apple's acclaimed espionage drama "Slow Horses," starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman, unveils trailer for season three". Apple TV+. Archived from the original on 8 November 2023 . Retrieved 9 November 2023. The plotting which did lead you by the arm into cul-de-sacs and dead ends before pulling the rug under your feet – and the denouement in the Cotswold village of Upshott was effective. Ho, Dander and Standish deduce that Chernitsky never left the UK, and just planted his phone in the luggage of a touring folk band at the airport. Using his cover as a journalist from The Times, River befriends Kelly, the daughter of the suspected sleeper agent Duncan Tropper. He discovers through her that Tropper and his wife Alex used to be student radicals who moved to the village from London. The family invite him to dinner and introduce him to their visiting friend Leo, who is actually Chernitsky. Slow Horses continues to impress as a modern-world-set variant on the classic Michael Caine / Harry Palmer tales of old, with Dead Lions very much the Funeral in Berlin to the first season's Ipcress File, seeing Gary Oldman's old dog uncover some seemingly-long buried Russian sleepers and an old adversary who still holds a grudge against him. The scale isn't exactly world-shaking, but it nonetheless has its moments and has certainly built itself up as a series to watch, with the extensive number of novels to adapt from suggesting it really has legs should Apple continue to invest in it.

Marek Vašut as Andre Chernitsky, a former KGB operative and assassin who operated during the Cold War. Slow Horses was published by Constable in 2010, but the firm declined the opportunity to publish the next book in the series in the United Kingdom due to disappointing sales of its predecessor. Soho published the Slough House novels in the United States, and John Murray started republishing the series in the UK from 2015. [7]Samuel West as Peter Judd MP, a rising right-wing Conservative politician (series 1) and later Home Secretary (series 2). Slow Horses - Dead Lions is on Apple TV+ from 2nd December 2022, with the first two episodes available and the remaining four airing weekly. Standing by the Wall: The Collected Slough House Novellas (2022) - Includes all novellas in the Slough House series published as of 2022.

Dead Lions] features some of the twistiest plotlines in crime fiction…[and] is beautifully written but also elegantly structured . . . Ever since finishing Slow Horses, I’ve been waiting for a possible sequel. Now that it’s here, I have the pleasure of experiencing it, along with the pang of having finished it.” sortTitle Dead Lions Slough House Series Book 02 crossRefId 1144011 series Slough House id 5D9AB3D4-30A4-4647-91F7-5ECE27D2D0D0 starRating 3.9 OverDrive MetaData isPublicDomain False formats Wiseman, Andreas (11 April 2023). ""'Slow Horses' Season Four: Hugo Weaving, Joanna Scanlan & Ruth Bradley Among Cast To Join Gary Oldman In Apple Spy Series, Filming Underway" ". Deadline. Archived from the original on 11 April 2023 . Retrieved 11 April 2023. Apple's hit espionage drama "Slow Horses" debuts season two trailer". Apple.com. 19 October 2022. Archived from the original on 26 October 2022 . Retrieved 26 October 2022.Catherine Standish, the quietly respected mother figure in Slough House, who does seem to have the strength to resist the obnoxiousness of Lamb. In 2003, Heron published his first novel, Down Cemetery Road. It was the first volume in a four-book series about Zoë Boehm, an Oxford private detective. [4] Funny, clever . . . Genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose.”