<p><b>Winner of the 2013 CWA Gold Dagger Award</b><br><b></b><b>A BBC <i>Front Row</i> best crime novel of the year</b><br><b></b><b>A <i>Times</i> crime and thriller book of the year</b></p><p><b>'The finest new crime series this Millennium' <i>Mail on Sunday</i></b></p><br><p>Dickie Bow is not an obvious target for assassination.</p><p>But once a spook, always a spook. And Dickie was a talented streetwalker back in the day, before he turned up dead on a bus. A shadow. Good at following people, bringing home their secrets.</p><p>Dickie was in Berlin with Jackson Lamb. Now Lamb's got his phone, and on it the last secret Dickie ever told, and reason to believe an old-time Moscow-style op is being run in the Service's back-yard.</p><p>In the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, Jackson Lamb's crew of back-office no-hopers is about to go live . . .</p>