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  • The 14th Spider Shepherd Thriller
  • By: Stephen Leather
  • Narrated by: Paul Thornley
  • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (736 ratings)
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Light Touch

By: Stephen Leather
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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Summary

The 14th thriller in the Spider Shepherd series promises even more gripping action from The Sunday Times best seller Stephen Leather.

Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice.

But what do you do when you believe an undercover cop has crossed the line and aligned herself with the international drugs smuggler she was supposed to be targeting?

When a deep-undercover cop stops passing on intelligence about her target, MI5 sends in Dan 'Spider' Shepherd to check that she is on the straight and narrow.

Now two lives are on the line - and Shepherd discovers that the real danger is closer to home than he realised.

As Spider finds his loyalties being tested to the limit, an SAS killer is on a revenge mission in London, and only Spider can stop him.

©2017 Stephen Leather (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Critic reviews

"[Leather] has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real." ( The Daily Mail)
"Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it." ( The Sun)

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Enjoyed this ....

More than the last one. As always with Leather, I enjoy the the little insights he gives beside the macho stuff.

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The best yet

Stephen Leather, is such a good author he leads you in so many on the edge of your seat situations with different characters that are on their own path, that when you leave one character and start on another you can't wait to get back to that character and so on, great book can't for the next book to come out.

Paul Thornley is arguably the best narrator around it's got to the stage where I have started to follow Paul around in his audible life, it's just great when he teams up with Stephen Leather.

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Peter Parker has nothing on him!

As always a good read (or listen). But with the same voice being used for so many characters it was a bit confusing at times.
Spider is my favourite character in all the books I read, but this book wasn't quite as thrilling as usual saying that I did enjoy it, I just expected a little more umph.

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Another Belting Story

God I hate Willowby-Brown! Superb character though. Paul Thornley is by far the best narrator, Stephen Leather the best author of this genre & Spider the best ‘hero’

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Brilliant as usual

Excellent. Well crafted with plenty of action. The two stories running side by side kept the pace up. Paul Thornley is great as usual

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Amazing book

I thought this book was absolutely amazing, from start to finish, it had me hooked also, the narrator Paul Thornley in my opinion, he is the best narrator this is, a five star book, written by a five star author, read by a five star narrator!

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Superb

Back to his best superb book fast moving great story, couldn't stop listening, paul thornley brilliant performance

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Very good

It’s always a pleasure listening to these books with constant actions and always conflicting roles

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I think this is the best one yet?

It’s thrilling, you live the story, your with the characters and it’s a full on pace story with trips and spills along the way, I recommend this book

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awesome

Great story, 2 stories running side by side. A new character appears, which I'm sure will turn up in future books. We'll worth reading or listening too.

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