Dead Lions

Praise

Praise for DEAD LIONS

Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel
A BBC Front Row Best Crime Novel of the Year
A Times Best Crime and Thriller Book of the Year
Winner of the Palle Rosenkrantz Prize
A Sunday Times Top 50 Crime and Thriller Book of the Past 5 Years
A 2014 Barry Award Nominee
A 2014 Macavity Award 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

“[Herron’s] cleverly plotted page-turners are driven by dialogue that bristles with one-liners. Much of the humor comes from Herron’s sharp eye for the way bureaucracies, whether corporate or clandestine, function and malfunction. The world of Slough House is closer to “The Office” than to 007.”
—The Associated Press

“The sharpest spy fiction since John le Carré.”
—NPR’s Fresh Air

“Compulsively readable, tightly plotted.”
—Los Angeles Times

“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
 
“The best in a generation, by some estimations, and irrefutably the funniest.”
–Jill Lepore, The New Yorker

“[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