Publisher Description

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line - for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission.But when the plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors beat and torture him. Shepherd's MI5 controller Charlotte Button is determined to get her man out of harm's way, but to do that she's going to have to break all the rules. Her only hope is to bring in America's finest - the elite SEALs who carried out Operation Neptune Spear - in a do-or-die operation to rescue the captives.

Notes

The 11th thriller in the bestselling series featuring MI5 agent Spider Shepherd. Hodder have sold more than a million books by Leather, who is one of the top-selling writers in ebook.

Author Biography

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, , and find him on Facebook at Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, , and for his Jack Nightingale series,

Review

Lots of gunfire, tactical talk and imaginative plotting. Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it - SunAs tough as British thrillers get . . . gripping - Irish IndependentA writer at the top of his game - Sunday Express

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The eleventh heart-pounding thriller in Stephen Leather's bestselling Spider Shepherd series.

Long Description

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line - for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission.But when the plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors beat and torture him. Shepherd's MI5 controller Charlotte Button is determined to get her man out of harm's way, but to do that she's going to have to break all the rules. Her only hope is to bring in America's finest - the elite SEALs who carried out Operation Neptune Spear - in a do-or-die operation to rescue the captives.

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A writer at the top of his game-- Sunday Express

Promotional "Headline"

WHITE LIES is a fast paced, heart-pounding thriller that will have you hooked from the first page until the last - the eleventh Spider Shepherd book in Stephen Leather's bestselling series.

Description for Sales People

Hodder have sold over a million books by all action thriller supremo Leather, who is one of the top-selling writers in ebook. There is a bigger market for his fiction than ever before.

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