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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780340734117
Edition: New
ISBN: 0340734116
Label: Hodder Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Hodder Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: August 16, 2004
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Studio: Hodder Paperbacks

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Rating: - Hard Landing (Dan Sheperd Mysteries)
The Dan Shepherd series are rivetting and hard to put down. 'Spider' is an interesting and complex character but reassuringly tough - a bit like a UK version of Jack Reacher from the Lee Child books, but not such a loner. I have enjoyed everyone of the Dan Shepherd books and strongly recommend them - the fact that I have bought them all is testament to Stephen Leather being a great author

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Rating: - Spider Does Porridge
I have just read Hard Landing for the 2nd time with a gap of about 3 years. I have a talent for developing amnesia when it comes to reading and therefore I could really only remember the basic plotline. I was once again captivated by the tension the author creates in this thriller and found myself holding my breath as the action hotted up. I think the introduction of Spider's family and his interaction with his son humanises a character I have previously described as "superhuman" (my review of Dead ... Read More

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Rating: - Great intro to Spider
This is the first of Leathers books to feature Dan Shepherd, and it is a cracker! Carpenter is a drug dealer on remand in a high security prison but managing to kill off witneses so his case won't go to trial. Carpenter has a huge span of control both in and out of the nick. Enter Spider, undercover to make sure Carpenter gets convicted. This is a great and tense game of chess with Carpenter having a strong network and Spider always under the risk of being found as a cop in jail. Great story, but ... Read More

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Rating: - Standard Prison story with a cracking end
Leather has written some amazing books and this for anyone else would be a good book but not quite as amazing as his early ones. The story starts off with Dan Shepherd being arrested and put in prison to get information on a really nasty drug runner who has killed off most of anyone who can finger him. The scenes are pretty graphic and the action as far as it can get in a prison is pretty hard and fast. The ending makes a huge extra point to the book.

Not bad.

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Rating: - New literary Tough Guy hits the ground running
HARD LANDING was the first in the Stephen Leather's series of thrillers starring Dan "Spider" Shepherd, an ex-SAS trooper now assigned to an elite Metropolitan police unit tabbed for deep undercover operations when the usual enforcement methods can't nab the bad guys. Dan's nickname came to be while on an SAS survival training mission and he won a bet on who could eat the most disgusting thing. One normally doesn't see "tarantula" on the menu even in the greasiest curry house.

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