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Category Archives: Spy fiction

Real Tigers & Spook Street by Mick Herron (2 books)

tonyturton.com Posted on 14 March 2024 by Tony14 March 2024

After I found the second book in this series a bit disappointing (see ‘Dead Lions’) I was slow getting round to reading the next ones. Happily, ‘Real Tigers’ and then ‘Spook Street’ lived up to the promise of the original … Continue reading →

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With A Mind To Kill by Anthony Horowitz

tonyturton.com Posted on 16 February 2024 by Tony16 February 2024

Horowitz has written several books continuing the work of famous authors, notably Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes and Ian Fleming/James Bond. I read one of his Holmes books, ‘House of Silk’, and enjoyed it. This one, a Bond story, not so much. … Continue reading →

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The Man Between by Charles Cumming

tonyturton.com Posted on 16 October 2020 by Tony16 October 2020

Suggested to me by an afficionada of the spy genre, I must admit that this book didn’t impress me at the start; the basis of the story seemed too improbable. But as I got further in it won me over … Continue reading →

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Dead Lions by Mick Herron

tonyturton.com Posted on 5 January 2020 by Tony5 January 2020

The second in the Jackson Lamb series. I felt it lacked a little of the tautness of the first; it ranges over an area wider than the confined London of “Slow Horses“ and the plot requires a bigger stretch of … Continue reading →

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Slow Horses by Mick Herron

tonyturton.com Posted on 19 October 2019 by Tony19 October 2019

Recommended to me by an expert in the genre, this first story in a series featuring the character Jackson Lamb didn’t disappoint. It starts with a slow burn as Herron introduces his characters and sets up the basis for this … Continue reading →

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  • Poisonous Tales
  • Whose Names Are Unknown
  • The Little Book of Weather
  • Dead Sweet
  • Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage and The Secret Commonwealth
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  • Real Tigers and Spook Street
  • With A Mind To Kill
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