Dead Lions

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Herron, Mick.

Dead lions / Mick Herron.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-1-61695-226-6

1. Intelligence service—Great Britain—Fiction.  I. Title.

PR6108.E77D43 2013

823’.92—dc23   2012027239

Interior design by Janine Agro, Soho Press, Inc.

v3.1

For MSJ

A fuse had blown in Swindon, so the south-west network ground to a halt. In Paddington the monitors wiped departure times, flagging everything ‘Delayed,’ and stalled trains clogged the platforms; on the concourse luckless travellers clustered round suitcases, while seasoned commuters repaired to the pub, or rang home with cast-iron alibis before hooking up with their lovers back in the city. And thirty-six minutes outside London, a Worcester-bound HST crawled to a halt on a bare stretch of track with a view of the Thames. Lights from houseboats pooled on the river’s surface, illuminating a pair of canoes which whipped out of sight even as Dickie Bow registered them: two frail crafts built for speed, furrowing the water on a chilly March evening.

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