Cold Kill (Dan 'Spider' Shepherd Series #3)

by Stephen Leather

Overview

The third book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.

Even deadlier than terrorists . . . are the men trying to stop them.

People-smuggling, counterfeit currency and attempted murder. It's all in a day's work for undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd. But what starts as a run-of-the mill investigation quickly turns into a matter of life and death when he uncovers a terrorist cell on a mission of death and destruction. The target: hundreds of passengers on a cross-channel train deep below the English Channel.

With the clock ticking and the explosives primed, Shepherd and his colleagues have to decide just how far they are prepared to go to save innocent lives. And they realise that to avoid catastrophe, they have to be even more merciless than the terrorists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780340834121
Publisher:	Hodder
Publication date:	03/01/2007
Series:	Dan 'Spider' Shepherd Series , #3
Edition description:	New
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

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 MorningPost 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.

You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, find him on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/stephenleather.

Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.

What People are Saying About This

Leather is in the top rank of thriller writers.

Editorial Reviews

An author who isn't afraid to tackle the new breed of crime that dominates today's headlines.—Daily Express

A breathless, exciting narrative with exquisite pacing.—The Good Book Guide

This is an aggressively topical novel but a genuinely thrilling one, too.—Daily Telegraph

Authentic stuff.—Observer

From the Publisher

Undercover cop Dan "Spider" Shepherd thinks he's found a pretty decent case when he stumbles upon a ring of Continental currency-smugglers. By the end of this thriller, though, he'll have much bigger fish to fry. While investigating a crew of people-traffickers, London detective and ex-SAS man Dan Shepherd discovers a cross-Channel currency-smuggling operation. Posing as low-level criminal Anthony Corke, Shepherd infiltrates the gang, befriending its London soldiers and establishing contact with the shady Albanian gangster who masterminds the business from his swank Paris flat. As Shepherd soon discovers, currency-smuggling isn't the only business these guys dabble in. With the help of a government contact, they've been churning out fake British passports, a scam that eventually finds Shepherd surrounded by Semtex and racing to foil a terrorist plot. All the while, bureaucratic complications are brewing as Shepherd and his old boss hop to new agencies, forcing them to make nice with a few fresh faces. And then, of course, there's that sketchy Saudi millionaire who's been seen stalking the globe lately, hanging out with all sorts of undesirables. There are a lot of loose strands floating about, but by and large, Leather (Soft Target, 2005, etc.) manages to braid them together with aplomb. Even Shepherd's overly familiar family dramas (has fiction ever known a happily married undercover cop?) are only minimally distracting, and while his ever-pensive policeman schtick is, perhaps, a touch stale, many of the novel's secondary characters are nicely drawn. The story builds to a boil as Shepherd, piecing together the terrorists' plans as he goes, lands aboard a Paris-bound Eurostar train withfour suicide bombers as his fellow passengers. It's a grand finale that'll have readers on edge. Nicely, and seemingly effortlessly, done.

Kirkus Reviews