Tall Order

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Rating: 4.5714287757873535 (70 reviews)

Stephen Leather

Jul 2018 · Hachette UK

4.6

70 reviews

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480

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He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists, codenamed Saladin. He plans and executes devastating attacks and then, ghost-like, he disappears.

Ten years ago he blew a plane out of the sky above New York - and now he's killed dozens in a London strike.

But one of the latest victims is related to the acting head of MI5, who knows exactly who she wants on the case: Spider Shepherd.

Dean Martin, a psychologically damaged former Navy SEAL, is the only person in the world who can identify Saladin. But Martin was killed ten years ago - wasn't he?

Shepherd must find Martin and take him back to the killing fields on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Revenge on the world's most wanted terrorist is long overdue, and Shepherd is determined to be the one to deliver it . . .

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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

Ratings and reviews

4.6

70 reviews

Alan Bell

6 August 2018

This narrative is hard hitting and says it as it is. To ruthlessly deal with home grown and other terrorists may be the only answer when push comes to shove. Sorry but I am sick and tired of the softly softly approach. Well done Steve, a thought provoking novel.

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John Warmington

20 April 2019

In many ways a typical Spider Shepherd story. The constant back and forth between two similar stories 10 years apart is confusing though. Other than that it was good.

1 person found this review helpful

Steve Ormond

26 August 2020

Another excellent novel from Stephen Leather, all the Spider Shepherd books are class. Would make a great TV series but no way that will happen as he is not politically correct.

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, and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial/. 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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