Dan “Spider” Shepherd is the hero of the Sunday Times bestselling series written by Stephen Leather. Before he was an undercover cop and MI5 officer, Spider was a soldier and a member of the elite SAS. This collection of short stories, published in paperback for the first time, cover the period before Shepherd joined the SAS, how he enrolled in the SAS and acquired his nickname and detail his adventures in war-torn Sierra Leone. The stories introduce many of the characters that appear in the Spider Shepherd books. The short stories are - Hard Targets, Natural Selection, Narrow Escape, Warning Order, Hostile Territory and Rough Diamonds
Genre: FICTION / Action & AdventureThe Spider Shepherd books often feature in the Sunday Times bestseller list.
Praise for Stephen Leather
'A master of the thriller genre'
Irish Times
'As tough as British thrillers get . . . gripping'
Irish Independent
'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist'
Sunday Express
The Paras had unleashed a storm of firing in the direction from which the shot had come, though more to keep the sniper’s head down than with any thoughts of hitting him. At that range, without a clear target, it would have been a miracle if a round had struck him. Two men had sprinted across the square and dragged the woman and her child into cover. Howling its shock and hurt, the child was eventually claimed by an old woman who might have been his grandmother, but the woman was already past help, her eyes rolling up into her head as her life-blood began to congeal around the wound that had killed her.
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Translated by JORGE RICARDO FELSEN
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