検索キーワード： 著者 "Mick Herron" すべてのカテゴリー

Dieter Hess, an aged spy, is dead, and John Bachelor, his MI5 handler, is in deep, deep trouble. Death has revealed that the deceased had been keeping a secret second bank account - and there's only ever one reason a spy has a secret second bank account. The question of whether he was a double agent must be resolved, and its answer may undo an entire career's worth of spy secrets.

Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies, former high-fliers now dubbed the 'slow horses'. Catherine Standish, one of their number, worked in Regent's Park long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back, and she's known Jackson Lamb long enough to have learned that old sins cast long shadows. And she also knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks, even recovering drunks whose careers have crashed and burned.

The 'Old Bastard' raised his grandson to be a hero, not a slow horse. Now, far from joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is part of Jackson Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House. Which doesn't mean he won't ditch everything and go rogue when his grandfather comes under threat. Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day, and knows better than most that this is no innocent old man.

In Slough House, dem Abstellgleis des MI5, werden Erinnerungen wach – nur leider keine guten. Cathrine Standish kauft wieder Alkohol, und Louisa Guy wühlt in den Trümmern einer alten Liebe. Jackson Lamb quittiert das höchstens mit Flatulenz und einem Schluck Whiskey, doch selbst ihn holen die dunklen Schatten seiner Vergangenheit ein. Auf der Suche nach einem altbekannten Verräter schickt er seine Truppe ins Feld – aber nicht alle kehren zurück.

From the creator of Dalziel and Pascoe comes a fantastic collection of crime stories complete with a foreword by Mick Herron.