《驽马》内容介绍
欢迎来到杰克逊•兰姆的王国：斯劳屋——一座失意间谍的收容所。这是一群被时代抛弃的人。他们曾经意气风发，现在却沦为颓丧的驽马，注定要过着处理无关紧要文件的生活。在无聊又发霉的办公室里，这些训练有素的特工彼此抱怨、争吵，盯着泛黄的墙壁做着美梦——他们都希望回到组织中，继续开展间谍生涯。
因此，当一个年轻人被绑架并被扣为人质，即将在互联网上直播处刑时，驽马们找到了自我救赎的机会。他们必须争分夺秒救出那个男孩，否则公开处决将在全世界引起轩然大波。没关系，他们是大名鼎鼎的斯劳小队，总有办法让事情变得更糟……
作者简介
米克•赫伦，一九六三年生于英国纽卡斯尔，英国间谍小说巨匠、著名悬疑小说作家。他毕业于牛津大学最古老、最负盛名的贝利奥尔学院，获得英语学士学位。代表作为“流人”系列。该系列目前已出版八部，前五部已改编为APPTVTV大爆剧集《流人》，由奥斯卡影帝加里•奥德曼领衔主演，新生代人气演员杰克•劳登倾情加盟，携一众英伦戏骨精彩飙戏，演绎后冷战时代的失意间谍群像，写就当代打工人的辛酸苦难史。目前本剧已播放前三季，在国内外均取得绝佳口碑，在豆瓣更是取得9.1分的亮眼成绩。
赫伦凭借“流人”系列第二本《亡狮》获得二〇一三年英国犯罪作家协会金匕首奖。他被誉为约翰•勒•卡雷的继承者、新时代的间谍小说之王，《纽约时报》《星期日泰晤士报》等媒体盛赞他为英国在世悬疑小说作家中最杰出的一位。
"Nagged Horse" content introduction
Welcome to the kingdom of Jackson Lamb: Slough House, an asylum for frustrated spies. This is a group of people left behind by The Times. Once high-spirited, they are now languishing horses, condemned to a life of dealing with unimportant papers. In a boring, musty office, these highly trained agents complain and argue with each other, staring at the yellowed walls and dreaming dreams - they all want to return to the organization and resume their careers as spies.
So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, about to be executed live on the Internet, the Nags find an opportunity for their own redemption. They had to race against time to save the boy or the public execution would send shockwaves around the world. It doesn't matter, they're the famous Slough Squad and have a way of making things worse...
About the author
Mick Herron, born in Newcastle, England in 1963, is a British spy novel giant and famous mystery novel writer. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford's oldest and most prestigious college, with a bachelor's degree in English. Represents as "flow person" series. The series has so far been published eight, the first five of which have been adapted into the APPTVTV hit series "Lost People", starring Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman and a new generation of popular actor Jack Loudon, with a wonderful drama, playing the frustrated spies of the post-Cold War era and writing the bitter history of contemporary workers. At present, the drama has aired the first three seasons, and has achieved excellent reputation at home and abroad, and has achieved 9.1 points in Douban.
Herron won the 2013 British Crime Writers' Association Golden Dagger Award for the second book in the series, The Dead Lion. He has been hailed as the successor to John Le Carre, the king of the new Age spy novel, and the New York Times, The Sunday Times and other media praised him as the most outstanding living British mystery writer.
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