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1) London rules
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Slough House volume 5
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English
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"London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in...
2) Slow horses
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Slough House volume 1
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English
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London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed careers. The "slow horses," as they're called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle -- not unusual in this line...
3) Spook street
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Never outlive your ability to survive a fight. Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail. Radioactive secrets and unfinished business go with the territory on Spook Street: he's always known there would be an accounting. And he's not as defenceless as they might think. 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...
4) Bad actors
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Slough House volume 8
Language
English
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"In London's MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster-a specialist who advises the Prime Minister's office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate-has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads him straight back to Regent's Park itself, with First Desk Diana Taverner...
5) Dead lions
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Slough House volume 2
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English
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London's Slough House is where disgraced MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their washed-up careers. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can't be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle--not unusual in this line of work. But they have one thing in common: they all want to be back in the action. And they'll do anything to...
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"Espionage. Subterfuge. Blackmail. Mystery. Humor. Revenge. Failure. Success. All this and more in a tight package of five novellas by Mick Herron, author of the Slough House novels, the books that inspired Slow Horses from Apple TV+. For fans new and old, Standing by the Wall is both an excellent introduction to the extended literary universe of Mick Herron and an immersive expansion of said universe. Meet more bad spies and even worse detectives....
7) Real tigers
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Slough House volume 3
Language
English
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"Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they've messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The 'Slow Horses, ' as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all want back in on the action. When one of their own is kidnapped and held for ransom, the agents of Slough House must defeat the odds, overturning all expectations...
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"CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron's debut novel introduces Sarah Tucker, whose search for a missing child unravels a murderous conspiracy. When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker--a young married woman, bored and unhappy with domestic life--becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband's wearisome business clients for...
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Polish
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"London Rules might not be written down, but everyone knows rule one: Cover your arse. At MI5 headquarters Regent's Park, First Desk Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime minister, he's facing attack from all directions himself: from the showboating MP who orchestrated the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Number Ten; from the showboat's wife, a tabloid columnist, who's crucifying Whelan in...
10) Kulawe konie
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Polish
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W pracy szpiega wywiadu brytyjskiego nie ma miejsca nawet na najmniejsze potknięcie. Agenci, którzy popełnili najdrobniejszy błąd, zostają usunięci z elitarnego grona Regent's Park i trafiają do Slough House. Tam ich praca traci cały swój urok, a byli szpiedzy zmuszeni są do porządkowania i przekładania papierów, którymi nikt się nie interesuje. To właśnie do Slough House odsyłani są agenci, którzy popełnili błąd, nie wytrzymali...
11) Caballos lentos
Author
Series
Slough house volume 1
Language
Español
Description
El agente de inteligencia River Cartwright, luego de haber sido desterrado del trabajo de alto perfil por incompetencia, sospecha que un prominente periodista británico vinculado a un partido extremista de estar detrás del secuestro de un adolescente musulmán.
Intelligence agent River Cartwright, after being banished from high-profile work for incompetence, suspects a prominant British journalist with ties to an extremist party of being behind...
12) Martwe lwy
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Polish
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"Trudno uważać Dickiego Bowa za oczywisty cel zamachu. Szpieg jednak zawsze pozostanie szpiegiem. Z Dickiego był całkiem niezły tajniak - robił za cień, a potem kładł szefom na biurka cudze sekrety. Właśnie znaleziono go martwego w autobusie. Przed laty Dickie Bow siedział z Lambem w zoo szpiegów - w Berlinie. A teraz Lamb ma już tylko telefon dawnego kumpla z jego ostatnią tajemniczą wiadomością, która pozwala sądzić, że pod...
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Polish
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"Catherine Standish wie, że szpiegom nie zdarzają się przypadkowe spotkania. Pracuje w kontrwywiadzie wystarczająco długo. Zdążyła się już przekonać, czym są zdrada, dwulicowość i wbijanie noża w plecy. Nie ma jednak pojęcia, w jakim celu ktoś mógłby obrać za cel właśnie ją alkoholiczkę na odwyku, która w królestwie Jacksona Lamba wraz z resztą przegrywów przekłada papiery z jednej sterty na drugą. Ktokolwiek przetrzymuje...