Clown Town

Resumen del libro

Spies lie. They betray. It's what they do.

Slow horse River Cartwright is waiting to be passed fit for work.

With time to kill, and with his grandfather - a legendary former spy - long dead, River investigates the secrets of the old man's library, and a mysteriously missing book.

Regent's Park's First Desk, Diana Taverner, doesn't appreciate threats. So when those involved in a covert operation during the height of the Troubles threaten to expose the ugly side of state security, Taverner turns blackmail into opportunity.

Over at Slough House, the repository for failed spies, Catherine Standish just wants everyone to play nice. But as far as Jackson Lamb is concerned, the slow horses should all be at their desks.

Because when Taverner starts plotting mischief people get hurt, and Lamb has no plans to send in the clowns.

On the other hand, if the clowns ignore his instructions and fool around, any harm that befalls them is hardly his fault.

But they're his clowns. And if they don't all come home, there'll be a reckoning.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Mick Herronx{0026}lt;/B (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963) estudió en el Balliol College y reside en Oxford. Autor de reconocido prestigio en el género negro (finalista de los afamados premios Macavity, Barry, Shamus, y Gold Dagger y Ian Fleming Steel Dagger de la Crime Writers' Association), entre su amplia producción destaca la serie sobre Jackson Lamb y sus caballos lentos , de la que ya han aparecido ocho novelas, se han vendido más de un millón de ejemplares, se ha traducido a más de veinte idiomas y triunfa en televisión con Gary Oldman y Kristin Scott Thomas como protagonistas. Salamandra ha publicado en español las cinco primeras entregas: x{0026}lt;I Caballos lentosx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Leones muertos x{0026}lt;/I (Gold Dagger Award), x{0026}lt;I Tigres de verdadx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I La Calle de los Espíasx{0026}lt;/I (Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award) y x{0026}lt;I Las reglas de Londresx{0026}lt;/I .x{0026}lt;/P