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. A post-apocalyptic horror television series developed by Frank Darabont for AMC based on the best-selling comic book series by. 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. 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. On Dickie’s phone Lamb finds the last message he ever left, which hints that an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the. But he’s not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. 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. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets.
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