Black Ops: The 12th Spider Shepherd Thriller

Name: Black Ops: The 12th Spider Shepherd Thriller
Rating: 4.470149040222168 (134 reviews)

Stephen Leather

Jul 2015 · Hachette UK

4.5

134 reviews

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432

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In what could be his highest-profile mission ever, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is called in to prevent the assassination of a head of state on British soil.

As an MI5 agent, Spider is used to going undercover, but when he's asked to assume the identity of the contract killer hired to take out President Vladimir Putin, he knows he'll become a wanted man.

And things are about to get more complicated: Spider is told that his MI5 controller and close friend Charlotte Button has been running an off-the-books assassination operation, taking vengeance on the men who killed her husband. Spider owes his life to Button - but this discovery will stretch his loyalty to the limit . . .

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4.5

134 reviews

Robert Freeman

June 9, 2017

Its OK, but even with the various sub-plots and twists it is a bit obvious. And I read this at the time of the Manchester and Borough Market atrocities and so some of the plot felt weird — reading similar things for pleasure while it was actually in happening in real life. I guess that's always the issue with action novels – a great read while they are pretend but shocking and emotionally scarring if real-life intrudes.

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Ian Dyson

August 23, 2015

Another great twist and turn, so many great shifts in the plot. You cannot but admire Spider Sheppard. Hope the freelance angle doesn't occur spoil the character

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Mike Robinson

November 9, 2017

I have read all of the Dan Sheppard series up to this one and every book I have not been able put down. From cover to cover it has held me and my imagination totally.

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 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.

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.

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