Lame horses

Mika Herron was called “John Le Carre of our time” and the new hope of British literature, compared with Ramond Chandler and Kingsley Emis, Ilin V, and Graham Green, Elmor Leonard and Joseph Heller. Herron novels are “funny, on the verge of farce, amazingly cynical caricature for politicians, functionaries, internecine squeaks and a big game” (booklist), and “lame horses”, they are also weakly from Slau-Bashny are finished counterintelligence officers punished “for addiction to drugs, alcohol or empties, for intrigues and betrayal, for discontent and doubts, as well as for an unforgivable oversight. ” Jackson Lam oversees them - “Falstaff of our days” and “one of the most monstrous characters in modern literature” (Bernard Cornwall) But, as you know, there are no former office, and every weakling, engaged in a meaningless stationery, dreams of justifying himself, returning to operational work in the Rigenta Park. And when the terrorists abduct the teenager and threaten to chop off his head live on the “YouTube”, weaknesses are not going to sit back ...
According to the first books of the Slau-Bashn cycle, the television series (two seasons at once) was launched in 2020–2021. The role of Jackson Lam was played by Gary Oldman, Jack Lauden, Olivia Cook, Jonathan Price, Christine Scott Thomas, Christopher Chung also starred in the series. The director of the first season was James Hawz (Merlin, Black Mirror, Doctor Who, Alienist, Raised by Wolves)