Joe Country

Resumen del libro

*Discover The Secret Hours, the gripping new thriller from Mick Herron and an unmissable read for Slough House fans**Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'Sets a new bar for spy fiction' Financial TimesIn Slough House, the backwater for failed spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. With winter taking its grip Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets.

So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends his crew out to even the score. This time, they're heading into joe country. And they're not all coming home.

'The go-to author for British espionage' Guardian'Bitingly intelligent, light of touch and frequently hilarious' Observer

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