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Real Tigers

Slough House, Book 3

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Real Tigers

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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*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.

©2016 Mick Herron (P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Crime Thrillers Detective Espionage Modern Detectives Mystery Political Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Fiction Witty

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Tense, thrilling with a wonderful streak of sarcastic humour this is easily Herron's best yet.

Best Yet!

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This book has such a clever plot with twists and turns. It had me hooked.

Superb!

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I have discovered this series of books via the Apple TV show. The narration is excellent and reflect well Gary Oldman’s portrayal of the lead character.

I am aware that the plots are changed for the TV version. I look forward to seeing this in the near future – however, this is altered (usually with Mick Herron input).

George Smiley, in the body of Joe Royle !

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Beautifully crafted and composed. Difficult to predict the plot twists, which is a rare bonus. A warped genius at work to interwieve such a complex story around such unlikely characters
Fantastic!

Smashing story!

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Excellent as ever
Good story well read
Sean Barrett is by far the best reader of Heron’s work

Excellent

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Again Sean Berrett brings it to life I can't think of anyone else who could give Jackson Lamb so convincingly

excellent performance

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Can’t be bothered with a long review, so I will deliver mine with one word…..sublime.

Superb.

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I'm incredibly into this series.
I continue to really like the characterisation of the inept (less so this time) slow horses run by a lazy and artistically flatulent hero. However, this offering by Herron is a little less quirky and a bit more main stream and, call me a sucker for the shallow, but, I really enjoyed it. This is much more Bond than Le Carre and certainly the lines are less blurred in this one. The morality pendulum is swinging away from the ambiguous. This may make the book less artistic but it is quite thrilling, nevertheless.
Sean Barrett does a fantastic job as always - he's the master of timing - he doesn't exactly go for the obvious humour in the text but I think that says more about his subtlety than his desire to get a quick laugh.

It's only seven o'clock, I've got time to get through a significant chunk of the next book in the series before bed, excuse me....

Accelerating

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Another cracking tale from Slough Houses' finest mess ups. JL as menacing as ever. great book, and even better read by the SB. Great.

Slow Horses eat Real Lions

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what a perfect mix, one that this humble 'readstner' simply cannot imagine anything been any other way. the master ball plots, character assessment and hilarious yet poetic turn of phrase which just seems made only for Barratts masterful narration. please if there is any justice in this universe do not stop making these books and do not take these two masters of their trade apart from each other.

Herron & Barrett; like vodka & tonic

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