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REAL TIGERS
por HERRON, Mick:
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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London: John Murray. 2016. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm with bumping to the spine tips and light rubbing to the corners, the cloth clean and bright. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is free from fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£16.99 to the lower front flap). Signed by Mick Herron in black ink on a bookplate fixed to the front endpaper. The third novel in the critically acclaimed 'Slough House' series, the Apple TV screen adaptation of which 'Slow Horses', has also been receiving justifiably rave reviews with Gary Oldman in the lead role of Jackson Lamb. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Em Dec 24 2017, um leitor disse:
Real Tigers is the third book in the Slough House series by prize-winning British author, Mick Herron. Slough House, that "administrative oubliette" of the intelligence service, is a repository for inconvenient or incompetent spooks: the spies who have caused embarrassment by losing a gun runner on surveillance, have anger management issues, or managed to close down Kings Cross Station in a training exercise. The current staff of seven "slow horses" occupy their time with tasks like comparing census results for anomalies, or checking passports issued during the '81 Civil Service strike.
But now, one of their number has been kidnapped, and the ransom involves access to classified files. River Cartwright's impulsive attempt to follow this demand sees him caught, interrogated and thoroughly beaten. It turns out to be a busy twenty-four hours for the slow horses: they are assaulted, shot at, sacked, tasered, and threatened with closure. Weapons include a broken CD, a Klieg light, a metal pipe, and even Jackson Lamb wields a gun. Roderick Ho pauses in his deluded belief of virility, to actually leave the office and crash a double-decker bus.
Once again, Herron gives the reader a fast-paced spy novel of a very different sort. The premise is original, and the execution is inspired. The characters are all credibly flawed, their dialogue is full of understated dry wit, and there is plenty of humour, most of it very black and very British, with an abundance of laugh out loud moments. There are twists and red herrings and plenty of back-stabbing and the reader will find it hard not to cheer these misfits on as they do their best. Readers will be pleased to learn there are two further volumes of this series for their entertainment and enjoyment. More excellent British spy fiction!
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- Lucius Books
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- 25549
- Título
- REAL TIGERS
- Autor
- HERRON, Mick:
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- Usado
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- First edition, first printing
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- London: John Murray. 2016
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