Book description
The first book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.
Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working
for an elite undercover squad he has lied, cheated and conned in order
to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice.
But when a powerful drugs baron starts to kill off witnesses to his
crimes, Shepherd is given his most dangerous assignment yet. He has to
go undercover in a top security prison, a world where one wrong move
will mean certain death.
As Shepherd gambles everything to move in on his quarry, he soon
realises that the man he is hunting is even more dangerous than the
police realise. And that he is capable of striking outside the prison
walls and hitting Shepherd where it hurts most. 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.
