Dirty War: The 19th Spider Shepherd Thriller (The Spider Shepherd Thrillers)

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Stephen Leather 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. Another huge positive point I truly admire in Stephen Leather’s writings is the lack of any sort of propaganda. After recovering Shepherd goes to work as a London police officer before being recruited to an undercover unit. The novels that Leather wrote while he was a journalist are usually centered in the location in which he was working in at the time.

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Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Essentially, the slush pile is a collection of every manuscript a publishing company has and the copies can be read by anyone from the CEO to a secretary. From the well-known Dan Shepherd to the newer characters that join him, each character is a joy to root for, except for the bad guys who are truly despicable.

Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one. His career in the journalism industry exposed Leather to many different countries and international incidents. For example, The Fireman, published in 1990 was told from the perspective of a British tabloid journalist who went to Hong Kong to investigate the suspicious suicide of his sister.

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In the novel, we learn that Shepherd was a British Special Forces soldier deployed to Afghanistan who had to leave the battlefield after being shot. If you’re jonesing for a hardcore and smart edge-of-your-seat thriller with a balanced worldview of characters and motivations with superb shootouts in nail-biting intensity, Dirty War is the perfect pick. But Shepherd’s reputation is also on the line – he helped get one of the jihadists into the UK during the final days of the War in Afghanistan. His weapons prowess is no less, as his proficiency with firearms and combat is displayed vividly throughout the narrative. Stepping outside of his comfort zone, Shepherd has also written a supernatural detective series, “Jack Nightingale” that is about a former police hostage negotiator and now a private detective.Leather was born in Manchester, England and attended Manchester Grammar School before graduating from Bath University. After working as a journalist for more than 10 years, Leather chose to step away from his career to pursue fiction writing full time. While many of his novels are written as stand alone books, Leather has penned several series that chronicle the adventure’s of a single protagonist. As each new novel is published, Leather’s readers spread across the world as his books are receiving increasing international fame.