Série: Slow horses

Vítejte ve světě pomalých koní, agentů MI5, kteří to královsky zvorali! Londýnský Slough House je místem, kam legendami opředená kontrarozvědka své průšviháře uklízí. Někteří z nich svou nešikovností zničili nespočet životů, jiní zkřížili cestu ambicióznějším kolegům, další si rádi a často přihnou. Jedno ale mají společné – chtějí zpátky do akce. To by se jim mohlo povést, když se život jistého mladého muže ocitne v ohrožení. Dokážou se pomalí koně vedení cynickým Jacksonem Lambem dostat zpátky do sedla?

It's an evening like any other when an explosion rips through the leafy Oxford suburb Sarah Tucker calls home. In the aftermath, a house now stands devastated, with two adults dead and a young girl missing. With the police more interested in keeping the neighbours from rubbernecking than in searching for the missing child, Sarah becomes obsessed with finding her.She enlists the help of Zoë Boehm's investigation agency, but Sarah's and Zoë's search reveals more secrets than answers, taking them from Oxford's cobbled streets to the rugged outer reaches of the British Isles. As Zoë and Sarah draw closer to the truth, they are caught in a web of conspiracy and come up against government forces, cold-blooded mercenaries and vengeful loners. Down Cemetery Road is Mick Herron's debut novel and the first book in the Zoë Boehm series.

A 'Book of the Year' in The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Spectator, Sunday Express, TLS, Irish Times*'Pure class' Ian Rankin 'Pitch-perfect' Lee Child'A powerful standalone spy thriller from a true contemporary master' Daily TelegraphTrying to investigate the Secret Service is like trying to get rid of the stink of dead badger. Hard. For two years the government's Monochrome inquiry has produced nothing more than a series of dead ends.The Service has kept what happened in the newly reunified Berlin under wraps for decades, and intends for it to stay that way. But then the OTIS file turns up. What classified secrets does it hold? And what damage will it create?All Max Janácek knows is that someone is chasing him through the pitch-dark country lanes and they want him gone.WE ALL HAVE JOBS TO DO IN THE DAYLIGHT. IT'S WHAT YOU DO IN THE SECRET HOURS THAT REVEALS WHO YOU REALLY ARE. 'Wonderful . . . high action, a spinning moral compass, and hidden motives on every page' Michael Connelly*Mick Herron's The Secret Hours was a Sunday Times Number Four bestseller in hardback in the second week of September 2023

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron''s Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****WINNER OF THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022***''A gripping thriller'' Ian Rankin****Slough House - the crumbling office building to which failed spies, the ''slow horses'', are banished - has been wiped from secret service records.Reeling from recent losses in their ranks, the slow horses are worried they''ve been pushed further into the cold, and fatal accidents keep happening.With a new populist movement taking a grip on London''s streets, the aftermath of a blunder by the Russian secret service that left a British citizen dead, and the old order ensuring that everything''s for sale to the highest bidder, the world''s an uncomfortable place for those deemed surplus to requirements. The wise move would be to find a safe place and wait for the troubles to pass.But the slow horses aren''t famed for making wise decisions.''The most completely realised espionage universe since that peopled by George Smiley'' The Times''An absolute tour-de-force'' Sunday Express

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron''s Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*''Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation'' Val McDermid''The best thriller writer in Britain today'' Sunday Express****At Regent''s Park, the Intelligence Service HQ, new First Desk Claude Whelan is learning the job the hard way.Tasked with protecting a beleaguered Prime Minister, he''s facing attack from all directions: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat''s wife, a tabloid columnist, who''s crucifying Whelan in print; and especially from his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who''s alert for Claude''s every stumble. Meanwhile, the country''s being rocked by an apparently random string of terror attacks.Over at Slough House, the last stop for washed up spies, the crew are struggling with personal problems: repressed grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, and the nagging suspicion that their newest colleague is a psychopath. But collectively, they''re about to rediscover their greatest strength - making a bad situation much, much worse.''Dazzlingly inventive'' Sunday Times

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron''s Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*''The new king of the spy thriller'' Mail on Sunday''Mick Herron is an incredible writer'' Mark Billingham****From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson Lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. But he''s not an obvious target for assassination in the here and now.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 Intelligence Service''s back-yard. Once a spook, always a spook, and even being dead doesn''t mean you can''t uncover secrets.Dickie Bow might have tailed his last target, but Lamb and his crew of no-hopers are about to go live.''The spycraft of le Carré refracted through the blackly comic vision of Joseph Heller''s Catch-22'' Financial Times

Now, far from joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is part of Jackson Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House. Which doesn't mean he won't ditch everything and go rogue when his grandfather comes under threat. Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day, and knows better than most that this is no innocent old man.

*Pre-order Clown Town, the ninth novel in Mick Herron''s Slough House series, now**Now an award-winning Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas and Jack Lowden*''The finest British spy fiction of the past 20 years'' Metro''Masterful'' Daily Mail''A pulsating spy thriller'' Daily Express****Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for failed spies, former high-fliers now dubbed the ''slow horses''. Catherine Standish, one of their number, worked in Regent''s Park long enough to understand treachery, double-dealing and stabbing in the back, and she''s known Jackson Lamb long enough to have learned that old sins cast long shadows. And she also knows that chance encounters never happen to spooks, even recovering drunks whose careers have crashed and burned.What she doesn''t know is why anyone would target her.So whoever''s holding her hostage, it can''t be personal. It must be about Slough House. Most likely, it''s about Jackson Lamb. And say what you like about Lamb, he''ll never leave a joe in the lurch.He might even be someone you could trust with your life.

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Série: Slow horses

Catherine Standishová je ze všech Pomalých koní tím nejméně nápadným. Zažila toho dost na to, aby přestala věřit, že existuje něco jako náhoda. Takže když se stane obětí únosu, pochybuje, že by šlo o něco osobního. Musí za tím být Jackson Lamb, respektive jeho minulost. Ale ať už si o Lambovi myslíte cokoli, není to člověk, který by někoho ze svého týmu nechal na holičkách.

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Vítejte ve světě pomalých koní, agentů MI5, kteří to královsky zvorali! Londýnský Slough House je místem, kam legendami opředená kontrarozvědka své průšviháře uklízí. Někteří z nich svou nešikovností zničili nespočet životů, jiní zkřížili cestu ambicióznějším kolegům, další si rádi a často přihnou. Jedno ale mají společné – chtějí zpátky do akce. To by se jim mohlo povést, když se život jistého mladého muže ocitne v ohrožení. Dokážou se pomalí koně vedení cynickým Jacksonem Lambem dostat zpátky do sedla?

Catherine Standishová je ze všech Pomalých koní tím nejméně nápadným. Zažila toho dost na to, aby přestala věřit, že existuje něco jako náhoda. Takže když se stane obětí únosu, pochybuje, že by šlo o něco osobního. Musí za tím být Jackson Lamb, respektive jeho minulost. Ale ať už si o Lambovi myslíte cokoli, není to člověk, který by někoho ze svého týmu nechal na holičkách.