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A review by adam_mcphee
Dead Lions by Mick Herron
5.0
Herron masterfully plays with our expectations. The plot our shoddy spies are trying to uncover becomes more and more preposterous until you think the book is going to devolve into farce, and then at the last moment he pulls the rug out from under you and it's actually quite clever.
Even so, it's not the plot we're here for, but the office politics and the characters, Jackson Lamb in particular. I've been pushing Slow Horses on anyone I can think I get away with pushing them on, and my pitch is always, "imagine if Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in A Most Wanted Man really let himself go, had Malcolm Tucker's foul-mouthed wit, and lived in a world with the cynical tones of a Warren Ellis comic."
Speaking of Malcolm Tucker, I hear Armando Iannucci is helming an adaptation along with Graham Yost of Justified and Will Smith who played Peter Mannion's aide-de-camp on Thick of It, starring Gary Oldman. It's a lot of talent but I dunno if I trust them to pull it off. For one thing, Oldman just doesn't seem fat enough to play Jackson Lamb.
Finally, what do Jackson Lamb's farts signify? I can't quite figure it out, but I'm convinced there's some meaning there, some code. If they were written as like 'one loud thump followed by two short ones' I'd be trying to read them as morse code.
Even so, it's not the plot we're here for, but the office politics and the characters, Jackson Lamb in particular. I've been pushing Slow Horses on anyone I can think I get away with pushing them on, and my pitch is always, "imagine if Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in A Most Wanted Man really let himself go, had Malcolm Tucker's foul-mouthed wit, and lived in a world with the cynical tones of a Warren Ellis comic."
Speaking of Malcolm Tucker, I hear Armando Iannucci is helming an adaptation along with Graham Yost of Justified and Will Smith who played Peter Mannion's aide-de-camp on Thick of It, starring Gary Oldman. It's a lot of talent but I dunno if I trust them to pull it off. For one thing, Oldman just doesn't seem fat enough to play Jackson Lamb.
Finally, what do Jackson Lamb's farts signify? I can't quite figure it out, but I'm convinced there's some meaning there, some code. If they were written as like 'one loud thump followed by two short ones' I'd be trying to read them as morse code.