Spook Street

Resumen del libro

Never outlive your ability to survive a fight. Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back in the day.

He knows better than most that this is no vulnerable old man. 'Nasty old spook with blood on his hands' would be a more accurate description. 'The old bastard' has raised his grandson with a head full of guts and glory.

But far from joining the myths and legends of Spook Street, River Cartwright is consigned to Lamb's team of pen-pushing no-hopers at Slough House. So it's Lamb they call to identify the body when Cartwright's panic button raises the alarm at Service HQ. And Lamb who will do whatever he thinks necessary, to protect an agent in peril ...

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