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Mick herron dead lions review6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These mess-ups and headcases have been banished from the sleek MI5 headquarters in Regent’s Park, London, to the secret service’s institutional oubliette Slough House, a grotty office block near the Barbican. Herron is the author of the hugely entertaining Jackson Lamb series, about a stunningly inept collection of secret agents. He is clearly not lazy, not at all, about the stuff that matters to him. “Obviously there are things I would need to check, and I would go out and do that.” At this point I look at him as if he’s just told me he gathers information by examining the entrails of birds. ![]() I don’t like having to learn new things, I’m too lazy,” he says. He’s still buying CDs (there’s a soaring Gavin Bryars choral work playing on the stereo) and at one point he produces his mobile, which, like the vast Toshiba laptop enthroned on a side table, seems suspiciously elderly. The other immediate impression given by his home is of – how shall I put it? – antiquity. W ere it not for the packed bookshelves – everything from Len Deighton to the complete Philip Larkin – you could almost imagine the novelist Mick Herron’s flat as a safe house, plain and modest as it is, tucked away in a rather anonymous modern block in Oxford. ![]()
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