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Praise for DEAD LIONS WINNER OF THE 2013 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARA BBC FRONT ROW BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2013 Funny, clever ... Genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose. ─ Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review A great romp. ─ Jeff Park, BBC Front Row If you like your suspense novels told with a smart dash of wit and sarcasm, filled with lots of twists and turns, Herron's your man. ─Shelf Awareness [ 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. ─International Noir Fiction Herron provides a dour, twisty spy thriller with something for everyone: part post-Cold War miasma, part James Bond heroics, and elliptical withal. ─Kirkus Reviews Herron delivers unbeatable entertainment for thriller fans. ─ Library Journal (starred review) Dead Lions is at once a finely wrought thriller and a farcical, fiercely pointed tale of political greed and bureaucratic corruption. Mick Herron writes like a dream. ─Open Letters Monthly A surreal, cynical, yet amusing look at the world of British intelligence.... a looking-glass world that features KGB undercover agents, a Russian oligarch, a text message on a mobile phone and the ghost of a fabled Soviet spymaster who may not be real... an amusing, serpentine plot that takes readers as far from the glamorous world of Ian Fleming's tuxedo-wearing spy as could be imagined. ─ January Magazine, Best Books of 2013 Full of style and cynical humor .... Has all the punch-your-lights-out action of a movie thriller. ─Read Me Deadly Prai

Praise for DEAD LIONS WINNER OF THE 2013 CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEARA BBC FRONT ROW BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2013A TIMES CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAYTIMES TOP 50CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE PAST 5 YEARSA 2014 BARRY AWARD BEST THRILLER NOMINEEA 2014 MACAVITY AWARD BEST MYSTERY NOVEL NOMINEE Smart, sharp British wit at its finest. A uniquely brilliant take on the British spy novel. Cara Black, New York Times bestselling author of Murder Below Montparnasse Funny, clever . . . Genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose. Publishers Weekly, Starred Review A great romp. Jeff Park, BBC Front Row Delightful . . . with a dry humor reminiscent of Greene and Waugh. Sunday Times, Best Thrillers and Crime Novels of the Past 5 Years Clever and funny. The Times Herron delivers unbeatable entertainment for thriller fans. Library Journal, Starred Review [A] wickedly clever send-up of the classic British spy novel. Crime Writers' Association If you like your suspense novels told with a smart dash of wit and sarcasm, filled with lots of twists and turns, Herron's your man. Shelf Awareness [ 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. International Noir Fiction Herron provides a dour, twisty spy thriller with something for everyone: part post Cold War miasma, part James Bond heroics, and elliptical withal. Kirkus Reviews Dead Lions is at once a finely wrought thriller and a farcical, fiercely pointed tale of political greed and bureaucratic corruption. Mick Herron writes like a dream. Open Letters Monthly A surreal, cynical, yet amusing look at the world of British intelligence . . . a looking-glass world that features KGB undercover agents, a Russian oligarch, a text message on a mobile phone and the ghost of a fabled Soviet spymaster who may not be real . . . an amusing, serpentine plot that takes readers as far from the glamorous world of Ian Fleming s tuxedo-wearing spy as could be imagined. January Magazine, Best Books of 2013 Full of style and cynical humor . . . Has all the punch-your-lights-out action of a movie thriller. Read Me Deadly Praise for Mick Herron Mick Herron never tells a suspense story in the expected way . . . In Herron's book, there is no hiding under the desk. The New York Times Book Review Stylish and engaging. The Washington Post [A] masterful thriller . . . The intricate plot, coupled with Herron's breezy writing style, results in superior entertainment that makes most other novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted by comparison. Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Like a good movie . . . grabs the reader from the first page. Booklist, Starred Review From the Hardcover edition.

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Mick Herron is a British novelist and short story writer who was born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He is the author of six books in the Slough House series (Slow Horses, Dead Lions, Real Tigers, Spook Street, London Rules, and the novella The List) and four Oxford mysteries (Down Cemetery Road, The Last Voice You Hear, Why We Die, and Smoke and Whispers), as well as the standalone novels Reconstruction, Nobody Walks and This Is What Happened. 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. He currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time.

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