Book description
The fourth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.
Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes
with the turf when you're an undercover cop.
Now working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Shepherd is pitting
his wits against the toughest criminals in the country. But when the man
who once saved his life is kidnapped in the badlands of Iraq, thrown
into a basement and threatened with execution, Shepherd has to decide
whether his loyalties lie with his country, his career, or his friend.
Shepherd and his former SAS colleagues realise that the hostage has been
abandoned by the Government and that officially nothing is being done to
rescue him. And with the execution deadline only days away, Shepherd
knows that the only way to stop his friend being murdered is to put
himself in the firing line in the most dangerous city in the world -
Baghdad.
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.
