Book description
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.
