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The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts. But the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's 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?
Los agentes de la Casa de la Ciénaga, donde los mandos del servicio de inteligencia británico envían a los espías caídos en desgracia, reciben el encargo de proteger a un oligarca ruso de visita en el país que el MI5 pretende alistar en sus filas. Mientras dos agentes son enviados al trabajo de vigilancia, Dickie Bow, un antiguo espía de la época de la Guerra Fría, es hallado muerto en los asientos traseros de un autobús en las afueras de Oxford.
Y aunque todos los indicios apuntan a un fulminante ataque al corazón, Jackson Lamb, el jefe de la casa de la Ciénaga, está convencido de que Dickie Bow ha sido asesinado. Porque si has sido espía, lo eres para siempre, y Dickie era un veterano de la información, cuyo trabajo en el Berlín de los años de plomo lo consagró como un agente excepcional. Así, cuando Jackson Lamb y sus hombres, sus "caballos lentos", empiezan a investigar, ponen al descubierto una oscura maraña de secretos de la Guerra Fría que parece conducir a Alexander Popov, una antigua leyenda soviética o quién sabe si el hombre más peligroso del mundo. ¿Cuántos muertos más se necesitan para mantener esos secretos ocultos?
In the opening chapter of Herron’s funny, clever sequel to 2010’s Slow Horses (2010), low-level British spy, Dickie Bow, dies on a bus to Oxford of apparently natural causes. To Jackson Lamb, the thoroughly unlikable head of Slough House (“the spooks’ equivalent of Devil’s Island,” to which disgraced or out-of-favor British spies are exiled), Bow’s death plus a cryptic, unsent text keyed into his cellphone (the single word “cicadas”) suggest Russian intrigue, perhaps tied to a long-dormant, possibly mythical, spy named Alexander Popov. Meanwhile, two Slough House operatives are seconded to the job of protecting a Russian billionaire, Arkady Pashkin, in London for a nebulous meeting. The complex plot drags a bit in the middle, as Herron gets quite a number of balls in the air, but once he does, the narrative picks up real steam and becomes genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose.
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The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts. But the head of Slough House, the irascible Jackson Lamb, is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade's 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?
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Y aunque todos los indicios apuntan a un fulminante ataque al corazón, Jackson Lamb, el jefe de la casa de la Ciénaga, está convencido de que Dickie Bow ha sido asesinado. Porque si has sido espía, lo eres para siempre, y Dickie era un veterano de la información, cuyo trabajo en el Berlín de los años de plomo lo consagró como un agente excepcional. Así, cuando Jackson Lamb y sus hombres, sus "caballos lentos", empiezan a investigar, ponen al descubierto una oscura maraña de secretos de la Guerra Fría que parece conducir a Alexander Popov, una antigua leyenda soviética o quién sabe si el hombre más peligroso del mundo. ¿Cuántos muertos más se necesitan para mantener esos secretos ocultos?