Real Tigers: Slough House Thriller 3

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This novel is a series highlight for me, and went on to win the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award as well as being shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award, The British Book Awards and The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Louisa Guy goes to Pembrokeshire to find him; after all she had been in a relationship with Min, another slow horse and Lucas’ father. Slough House, that “administrative oubliette” of the intelligence service, is a repository for inconvenient or incompetent spooks: the spies who have caused embarrassment by losing a gun runner on surveillance, have anger management issues, or managed to close down Kings Cross Station in a training exercise. Everyone enjoys an underdog story of course, but on top of that, the novels are about friendships forged from the common bond of disappointment but tested in life-and-death situations.

Real Tigers (Slough House Book 3) - Kindle edition by Herron Real Tigers (Slough House Book 3) - Kindle edition by Herron

Herron expertly juggles multiple plot lines and fully formed characters, injecting everything with a jolt of black humor. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.Witty, urbane, filled with acute observations, endlessly quotable lines and a cast of wonderfully jaded agents who I look forward to spending time with for many more books to come. Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. It turns out to be a busy twenty-four hours for the slow horses: they are assaulted, shot at, sacked, tasered, and threatened with closure. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Even readers who don’t care for the endless bureaucratic infighting will have to admire this tour de force, in which.

Real Tigers by Mick Herron - Publishers Weekly Real Tigers by Mick Herron - Publishers Weekly

Deliciously tongue-in-cheek and with a strikingly serpentine construction, it is a thriller that moves Herron close to the class of Graham Greene. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. The central conceit of the books is that MI5, like any large organisation, needs somewhere to place its most hopeless employees, and this place is Slough House, a building just around the corner from the Barbican Centre.If you are the publisher or author and feel that they do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, send us a message with the mainstream reviews that you would like to see added.

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Machiavellian plotting, sly humour, characters so compromised but so well-drawn you won’t be sure if he wants them to win or lose, and topical satire – this time the thorny issue of extraordinary rendition. His work has won the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, Shamus, and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards.Thus compromised, Lady Di is forced to go on the run, and has to reach out to the one person she would least like to ask for help… Jackson Lamb. But tigers can turn, can in fact be (and hence the title) real tigers, something Judd is forced to face when one of them is dumped dead on the street outside the restaurant he’s dining at. Machiavellian plotting, sly humour, characters so compromised but so well-drawn you won't be sure if he wants them to win or lose, and topical satire - this time the thorny issue of extraordinary rendition.