Book description
The third book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.
Even deadlier than terrorists . . . are the men trying to stop them.
People-smuggling, counterfeit currency and attempted murder. It's all in
a day's work for undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd. But what starts
as a run-of-the mill investigation quickly turns into a matter of life
and death when he uncovers a terrorist cell on a mission of death and
destruction. The target: hundreds of passengers on a cross-channel train
deep below the English Channel.
With the clock ticking and the explosives primed, Shepherd and his
colleagues have to decide just how far they are prepared to go to save
innocent lives. And they realise that to avoid catastrophe, they have to
be even more merciless than the terrorists. 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.
