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Consigned to Slough House, the dumping ground for the British Intelligence service, the intention is to keep those agents who have screwed up in the past out of harm's way. And yet, Jackson Lamb's sorry little unit can't seem to keep out of trouble. Even more improbably in Dead Lions , someone back at headquarter in Regents Park has decided to involve them in an operation, taking them away from their tedious administrative tasks and actually set them loose in the field. You'd think that Min Harper and Louisa Guy might be just a bit suspicious, particularly as their previous dealings have shown that James 'Spider' Webb is not someone to be trusted, but an op is an op, and it beats rotting away doing mundane time-wasting tasks in Slough House. All Webb wants is for them to 'vet' and look out for a Russian Oligarch and oil businessman Arkady Pashkin, who is due to visit London. Webb has his own reasons for the meeting, and by involving Slough House he obvio...