Dead Lions is the second book in a planned series of three about the inhabitants of Slough House in central London, the first, Slow Horses, having been a finalist for the Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger Award in 2010. Slough House and slow horses are associated by a pun which is deliberately not very good. Its inhabitants are members of MI5 – not the real Premier League MI5, which is near Regents Park, but its poor Division 2 relation at an outpost in the city. Slow horses is the name given to those members of the service whose careers have been blighted by an error of some kind.

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Sam Hazeldine as Moe, the leader of the Sons of Albion, an extremist far-right group, with a secret to hide. Rade Serbedzija as Nikolai Katinsky, a former KGB agent living in exile in London after defecting at the end of the Cold War.Starred Review. Funny, clever... Genuinely thrilling. The novel is equally noteworthy for its often lyrical prose." - Publishers Weekly

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Sophie Okonedo as Ingrid Tearney (series 1, expected to appear in series 3), the Director-General of MI5, often referred to as "First Desk". After watching the AppleTV series, I decide to read the books. I wanted to get ahead of the series. Meeting

a b Yossman, K.J. (29 April 2022). " 'Slow Horses' Adds 'Peaky Blinders' Star Aimee-Ffion Edwards, 'This Is Going to Hurt's' Kadiff Kirwan to Season 2 (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022 . Retrieved 2 December 2022. Lamb’s tempting Catherine to drink again was just cruel and unnecessary, a step too far for that particular characterisation. The series is produced by See-Saw Films and adapted for television by Will Smith (“Veep”). Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Douglas Urbanski, Gail Mutrux, Will Smith and Graham Yost serve as executive producers on the series. Season two is directed by Jeremy Lovering. Herron (Down Cemetery Road, 2009, etc.) provides a dour, twisty spy thriller with something for everyone: part post–Cold War miasma, part James Bond heroics, and elliptical withal.