I started reading the Vince Flynn books many years ago and I was in a restaurant reading one of his books when a man walked by and said Lee Child. 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. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details.

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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. 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. There are lots of the books I will read again, but some for me the subject matter can be pretty grim and I won’t read them again. The only issue I have with the Spider Shepherd, Lex Harper, Jack Nightingale and Matt Standing books?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. While employed at ICI, Leather was exposed to chemicals, incidents and stories that became the plot lines for many of his books. 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. After working as a journalist for more than 10 years, Leather chose to step away from his career to pursue fiction writing full time. Download Baltic Black Ops: An Action-Packed Spider Shepherd SAS Novel (Spider Shepherd: SAS Book 5) by Stephen Leather in PDF EPUB format complete free.

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Leather was born in Manchester, England and attended Manchester Grammar School before graduating from Bath University. One thing for me is there are locations written about in the stories, for example Leman street east London, Clapham North, Wimbledon common, Putney bridge, the bench outside Robert Dyas in Woking on which I have sat and ate my lunch when working in Woking) that I am very familiar with and it adds realism to what I am visualising.After recovering Shepherd goes to work as a London police officer before being recruited to an undercover unit. 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. Download Witch Hunt: A Jack Nightingale Novella by Stephen Leather in PDF EPUB format complete free. Stephen Leather has one-upped himself (a tremendous feat) with one of the most ingeniously captivating and timely action thrillers pertaining to the most recent shift of geopolitical climate in the Middle East.

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Stephen Leather’s economy with words is matched only by the elegance of the straight-forward prose with resonating situations and highly believable and distinctive characters. Another huge positive point I truly admire in Stephen Leather’s writings is the lack of any sort of propaganda. As each new novel is published, Leather’s readers spread across the world as his books are receiving increasing international fame. For a page turning thriller, try picking up one of Stephen Leather’s novels and be prepared to be wowed. This is the 30th book, but considering Alex has survived "Kill Alex Cross" before, chances are he survives this one.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. 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.

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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. In Leather’s novel Hard Landing his readers are introduced to the protagonist Dan “Spider” Shepherd. Sponsored by the estate of Ian Fleming , this award recognizes the best adventure novel that embodies the spirit and themes represent by James Bond.Embarrassed to say I only discovered Stephen Leather books fairly recently in the library but am now getting through one a week. Leather has worked for a variety of newspapers including Glasgow Herald, Daily Mirror, The Times, Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post where he lived in Hong Kong.