Short Range, Stephen Leather
Short Range, Stephen Leather
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Short Range
The 16th Spider Shepherd Thriller

Author: Stephen Leather

Narrator: Paul Thornley

Unabridged: 12 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/25/2019

Synopsis

The explosive new thriller in the Spider Shepherd series

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd's career path - soldier, policeman, MI5 officer - has always put a strain on his family. So he is far from happy to learn that MI5 is using teenagers as informants. Parents are being kept in the dark and Shepherd fears that the children are being exploited.

As an undercover specialist, Shepherd is tasked with protecting a 15-year-old schoolboy who is being used to gather evidence against violent drug dealers and a right-wing terrorist group. But when the boy's life is threatened, Shepherd has no choice but to step in and take the heat.

And while Shepherd's problems mount up at work, he has even greater problems closer to home. His son Liam has fallen foul of the Serbian Mafia and if Shepherd doesn't intervene, Liam will die.

Praise for Stephen Leather

'A master of the thriller genre'
Irish Times

'As tough as British thrillers get . . . gripping'
Irish Independent

'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist'
Sunday Express

(P)2019 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an eBook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful eBook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television. Leather has sold nearly 6 million books with Hodder & Stoughton.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gary on February 28, 2021

This is the 16th book in the Spider Shepherd series by Stephen Leather, full of action and thrills. Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is an excellent character from the same mould as Lee Child’s Jack Reacher. An ex SAS soldier and MI5 officer, Spider Shepherd’s life has always been action filled. As an undercove......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on September 16, 2021

I love a good series and the Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd series is a belter of a one by the author. This is the 16th in the series of which I am currently a bit behind but I love to nip in and out of these books when I have the time and being on holiday gave me the perfect opportunity to devour Short Rang......more

Goodreads review by Phil on June 16, 2023

Stephen Leather is one of the few authors who can grab my attention in the first few pages. he did that but i felt that the book was rushed and shorter than the others the story line was good , the bit in the middle that was a shock was a shock to say the least spiders new boss could be interesting say......more

Goodreads review by Nick on July 19, 2019

Number 16 in this excellent series is slightly shorter than usual but is up to the usual high standards we have come to expect. I’m not sure I know of any other series as consistently good as this one. Spider Shepherd is involved in an intelligence operation aimed at far right extremists and is uncom......more

Goodreads review by Arnold on October 07, 2023

The plot was less complex compared to previous instalments. Not one of my favourites. I was stunned by the events in Slovenia. As I was reading I thought it could have been possible but then to actually happen… I was stunned. That particular character was probably becoming redundant but I think their......more

Quotes

It is the authenticity of this plot that grasps the imagination and never lets it go Daily Mail on FIRST RESPONSE

As tough as British thriller writers get Irish Independent

The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist Sunday Express

This is one of my favourite thriller series and one that should be more widely recognised for its excellence . . . Leather's fluid prose makes the pages fly by Deadly Pleasures

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