The eighth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Kidnapping is one of the cruellest crimes - lives are put at risk for cold, hard cash. But when Somali pirates seize the crew of a yacht off the coast of Africa, they bite off more than they can chew. One of the hostages has friends in high places and Spider Shepherd is put on the case. He goes deep undercover in an audacious plan to bring an end to the pirate gang's reign of terror. But as Shepherd closes in on his quarry he realises that there's much more at stake than the lives of the hostages and that the pirates are involved in a terrorist plot that will strike at the heart of London.
Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shoveled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website, www.stephenleather.com.
Title: Fair Game (The 8th Spider Shepherd Thriller)
Author: Leather, Stephen
ISBN: 9780340924976
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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publication Date: 2011-07-21
Number of Pages: 512
Weight: 0.6624 kg
'The action is vividly drawn with enough technical detail to lend veracity, but never enough to swamp the narrative. Leather writes a very accomplished thriller indeed ... I'll be eagerly awaiting the next one.' -- reviewingtheevidence.com 'Leather has the rare knack of writing in such a way that you almost feel as if you are watching a film ... I devoured chapter after chapter late into the night.' -- crimesquad.com Praise for Stephen Leather's novels -- : 'This is an aggressively topical novel but a genuinely thrilling one, too.' -- Daily Telegraph 'As tough as British thrillers get ... gripping' -- Irish Independent 'In brisk newsman's style he explores complex contemporary issues while keeping the action fast and bloody.' -- Economist
