Mick Herron

„Évek óta ez a legszórakoztatóbb kémregény.” Mail On Sunday Aki egyszer kém, az örökre kém marad. A brit MI5 tagjai közé csak a legjobbakat veszik fel. Ám az előkelő pozíciót hamar elveszítheti az ember, ha ordas hibát vét. Tökéletesen tudja ezt Jackson Lamb is. Egy csapatnyi leszerelt kémet irányít, akik egykor mind a titkosszolgálat legjobbjai címre pályázhattak, ám egy hiba miatt parkolópályára kerültek. Mostani feladatuk pedig kimerül az aktatologatásban. Amikor azonban egy egyetemista fiút elrabolnak, és a fogvatartói a lefejezését tervezik, a kémcsapat tagjai a szolgálat instrukcióit figyelmen kívül hagyva, a tettek mezejére lépnek. Felejthetetlen karakterek, szatirikus kémtörténet, John le Carré rajongóinak kihagyhatatlan! A könyv egy sorozat első kötete, amelyet Gary Oldman főszereplésével filmesítenek meg.

Érthetetlen, hogy valaki holtan akarja látni Dickie Bow-t. Sőt, meg akarja gyilkolni. Ám aki egyszer kém, az örökre kém marad. Dickie pedig az egyik legjobb kém volt annak idején – mielőtt a holtteste felbukkant egy buszon. Észrevétlenül követett bárkit, árnyéka lett a kiszemelt embernek, és addig nem nyugodott, amíg ki nem szagolta az illető összes titkát. Dickie legutóbb Jackson Lamb-mel volt Berlinben. És most Lamb, a parkolópályára állított kémek gyűjtőhelyének a főnöke a kezében tartja a meggyilkolt férfi telefonját, amelyen rajta van Dickie legutolsó elsuttogott titka… Lamb pedig meg van róla győződve, hogy a brit titkosszolgálatba beépülve valaki vagy valakik leginkább az oroszokra jellemző akciót szerveznek. Az Utolsó kör kémei azonban ezt nem hagyhatják.

'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career; and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is a terrific thing' Gary Oldman Spooks are supposed to be stealthy ... But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House. This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal. In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action. So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. And unless they can prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public execution is going to echo round the world. 'The most exciting development in spy fiction since the Cold War' The Times 'The most enjoyable British spy novel in years.' Mail on Sunday

In MI5 a scandal is brewing and there are bad actors everywhere. A key member of a Downing Street think-tank has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, one-time First Desk of MI5's Regent's Park, is tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads straight back to Regent's Park HQ itself, with its chief, Diana Taverner, as prime suspect. Meanwhile her Russian counterpart has unexpectedly shown up in London but has slipped under MI5's radar. Over at Slough House, the home for demoted and embittered spies, the slow horses are doing what they do best: adding a little bit of chaos to an already unstable situation. In a world where lying, cheating and backstabbing is the norm, bad actors are bending the rules for their own gain. If the slow horses want to change the script, they'll need to get their own act together before the final curtain. *Includes the short story Standing by the Wall: A Slough House Interlude*

Trying to investigate the Secret Service is like trying to get rid of the stink of dead badger. Hard. For two years the government's Monochrome inquiry has produced nothing more than a series of dead ends. The Service has kept what happened in the newly reunified Berlin under wraps for decades, and intends for it to stay that way. But then the OTIS file turns up. What classified secrets does it hold? And what damage will it create? All Max Janácek knows is that someone is chasing him through the pitch-dark country lanes and they want him gone. WE ALL HAVE JOBS TO DO IN THE DAYLIGHT. IT'S WHAT YOU DO IN THE SECRET HOURS THAT REVEALS WHO YOU REALLY ARE.