Dead lions

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 Vu and Graham Green, Elmor Leonard and Joseph Heller. Herron novels are “funny, on the verge of farce, amazingly cynical caricature of politicians, functionaries, internecine squeaks and a big game” (BOOKLIST), and its heroes (“lame horses”, they are also weak-winged-bangs) are the fined counter-drawers , punished for addiction to drugs, alcohol or disclosure, for intrigues and betrayal, for discontent and doubts, as well as for an unforgivable oversight. Jackson Lam is overturning over them - “Falstaf of our days” and “one of the most monstrous characters in modern literature” (Bernard Cornwall) In the second novel of the cycle, “Dead Lions”, the old acquaintance of Lama from the time of service in Berlin, a former informant named Dicky Bow, dies on the bus at the entrance to Oxford, and not only does his death look suspicious, but Lam finds on his mobile phone Unpertured message with one word: Cicadas. So there is a chance that the mythical agent network of deep conspiracy is not so mythical. But in the Mi-5, it is not to that counterintelligence is paralyzed by the “audit that reminds the Inquisition”, and to deal with the “cicadas” and their mythical (or still not mythical?) The leader will have Lam and his “lame horses” ...
According to the first books of the Slau-Bashnya 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 Chong, also starred in the series. The director of the first season was James Hawz (Merlin, Black Mirror, Doctor Who, Alienist, Raised by Wolves)