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  • The 18th Spider Shepherd Thriller
  • By: Stephen Leather
  • Narrated by: Paul Thornley
  • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (421 ratings)
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By: Stephen Leather
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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Summary

The new edge-of-your-seat novel in the thrilling Spider Shepherd series

Who can you trust if you can't trust the people tasked with protecting the nation?

Murderous jihadists have been crossing the English Channel, passing themselves off as asylum seekers. MI5 have been keeping them under surveillance, but what starts as a simple terrorist takedown goes badly wrong, and dozens of innocent civilians are killed in the heart of London.

And the screw is tightened when a bomb takes out senior members of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Someone within the security services has been working to their own agenda, and only Dan 'Spider' Shepherd can identify the bad apple. His search for the rogue agent takes him to Turkey and then to Dubai, where his masters order him to carry out a breathtaking act of revenge.

©2021 Stephen Leather (P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

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Bloody brilliant

Absolutely loved it.
Finally spider gets to play a real SAS role.
Definitely recommend this title.
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A superb listen

Another brilliant read from the master himself. Stephen Leather once again excels in this the 18th Spider Shepherd book. Fast paced and edge of the seat stuff from start to finish. Having read all the Spider books it's hard to choose a favourite but this one would be in my top 3 definitely. Great to see Charlotte Button and Lex Harper still around to assist too. Another master Mr Paul Thornley is once again brilliant in his narration of the book, if anything deserves 10 stars this is a case in point in my opinion. Highly recommended read.☺

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excellent

awesome, the wait was worth the wait , need more Lex Harper novels great aggressiveness
with Lex no messing about.

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No consistency

How can Lex harper go from Cockney to Scottish now scouse. And in this book he meets the SAS twins for the first time despite having worked with them twice before in previous books…….

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Fast track

Stephen if you read These, please I’ve been listening to the series consecutively, please make a decision on where Lex is from? We’ve had cockney Lex, Scottish Lex and now Scouse Lex? The stories of spider and Co are really good and love the series. But this really frigging bugs me. For what it’s worth if anybody else has noticed this. I prefer Scottish lex. 😂

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A thrilling Spider book

Fantastic book full of twists and turns. I couldn't stop listening to it. Narrated well. Highly recommend it.

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Good book

Good read more bad guys dealt with hope the story line with Liam and his girlfriend pan out the way i think it will

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Ummmmm not as good as previous 17

I love Dan S & have been with him all the way, the research is first class as always, however, it’s perhaps time to retire him, I assume as SL has done a book around Last man “Standing” & Richard Yoakley it probably is about time 👍🏻 Nevertheless Dan “Spider” Shepherded, it’s been a blast 👍🏻

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Oh dear. I couldn’t finish it

So disappointed. I have thoroughly enjoyed previous books in this series. However in this one, the plot meandered, there was a lot of padding via unnecessary description and dialogue. The plot just lacked focus and did not keep me engaged as previous books have. Paul Thornley’s narration nevertheless is still great.

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Worth the credit, definitely!

Really good book, exciting, moved at a good pace, great storyline, a little different. I recommend

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