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Il sotterraneo (2012)

Struggling screen writer Marvin Waller is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Sarah Hall. NYPD detectives Turner and Marcinko are convinced he's harboring a secret. Is anything in this tale what it seems?I recently stated that Good Reads is responsible for introducing me to interesting new ...

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Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish (2011)

Inspector Inspector. You love fiction way too much. I loved the fact that this book is filled with literary references. The setting is duly foreign and the murder a real mystery. My one complaint is that the story was a short but I can see why if this were a longer novella or such it would lose...

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Soft Target (2005)

I'm now working my way through Stephen Leather's series featuring undercover cop and former SAS team member Dan Shepherd, and this is the second (there are eight in all so far, I believe). In this one, he takes on two personas as he tries to juggle assignments to ferret out suspected "dirty" cops...

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Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye: True stories from the case files of Warren Olson (2006)

Two-timing bargirls, suspicious spouses, and lesbian lovers'--it was all in a day's work for Bangkok Private Eye Warren Olson. Fluent in Thai and Khmer, Olson walked the mean streets of Bangkok and was able to go where other Private Eyes feared to tread. The stories are based on Olson's case file...

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Hungry Ghost (1996)

1991 in Hong Kong and the colony is preparing for Chinese rule.Geoff Howells, a government-trained killing machine, is brought out of retirement and sent there. His brief: to assassinate Chinese Mafia leader, Simon Ng. Howells devises a dangerous and complicated plan to reach his intended victim ...

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The Tunnel Rats (2006)

Two gruesome murders have occurred, and both victims have an ace of spades impaled on their chests. It is detective Nick Wright who, hunting for a motive, must return to Vietnam to unearth the secrets of the past.

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Hot Blood (2007)

As I work my way through all of Stephen Leather's Dan "Spider" Shepherd series, it's always a pleasure to know I won't be disappointed (I'd have given this one 4-1/2 stars had it been possible). In this one, the fourth, Shepherd has started his new job under a new supervisor he hasn't yet learned...

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The Chinaman (1992)

In Vietnam Nguyen Ngoc Minh was a Vietnemase killer but heswitched sides and went with the US and he became a ruthlesshunter of his former comrades. At the end of the war the North was overtaking the South and Nguyen had to get out with hisfamily. He made it to the American Embassy with passes t...

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Cold Kill (2007)

This is a great continuation in a great series that just keeps on going and going, entertaining and petrifying its audiences as it goes. This book really asks some hard questions of the reader as it focuses on terrorists and what we are willing to do about it. Are we willing to torture them for i...

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The Stretch (2000)

I read Fair Game and I read Rough Justice and found them both to be very average of this genre. I did finish both books but thought they were both very easy to put down and without looking at the synopses I can't remember a thing about either one. And that's ok because I don't read this type of b...

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Tango One (2002)

In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police's training centre, but on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives. They are to become criminals, work their way up through w...

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Pay Off (2002)

International bestselling author Stephen Leather's first gripping thriller. Revenge, drugs, terrorism and the underworld collide in one man's quest to avenge a cold blooded murder.

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The Vets (1994)

Hong Kong is going back to the Chinese, but not before one man tries to pull off the most daring robbery of them all. Using the hard-bitten skills of four Vietnam veterans, Colonel Joel Tyler is about to rake in the millions, and throw the international community into chaos at one of the most cru...

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The Double Tap (1992)

The assassin - the world's most successful contract killer. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card - one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each of his targets. The Judas goat - an ex-member of the SAS, Mike Cramer is the perfect sacrificial bait. When the FBI discover the...

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The Birthday Girl (2006)

Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she is his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl, and the past is another country. Or so it seems. But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she discovers that Freeman's company is subject ...

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The Bombmaker (2005)

Quote from author: ""One thing I have never been able to understand is why an organisation like the National Black Police Association is allowed to exist. It is by its very nature racist - hoping to promote the interests of a group solely on the basis of the colour of its members. A police office...

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Dead Men (2008)

Undercover cop Dan "Spider" Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. When a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, Shepherd must put his life on the line to protect his former enemies. While he is undercover in Belfast, a grief-stricken Saudi whose two so...

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Kill Zone (A Spider Shepherd Short Story)

Afghanistan. Spider Shepherd squatted on his heels outside his tent, drinking his first brew of the day from a battered mug as he watched the wind stirring dust devils from the dirt floor of the compound. The dust covered every surface, leaving everything as brown and drab as the wintry Afgha...

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The Fireman

Maybe her mate, maybe her rival. A taxi horn blared and it was gone in a blur of movement back into the dark. The cat in the gutter started to pull herself along the road, claws scraping, dragging her useless back legs behind her. ‘No, lie still. It’s all right, it’s all right,’ I said, even thou...

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Rough Diamonds (A Spider Shepherd short story)

October1997. ‘Penny for them?’ growled Jock McIntyre. Jock was a hard-bitten Glaswegian whose rough, no-nonsense ways concealed a keen intelligence. Had ‘intellectual’ not been something of an insult where Jock came from, he might even have admitted to the title, for the SAS rumour mill claimed ...

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Dark Forces

The two yachtsmen had seen the boat coming and had carried on heading for Greece under full sail. The wind was lacklustre at best, and even with all the sails unfurled they weren’t making much more than four knots. Not that running was an option. The Faiakas Class boat was just short of twenty-fi...

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The Eight Curious Cases of Inspector Zhang

“It’s lovely,” said Mrs. Zhang. “As pretty as the picture in the brochure.” They were standing outside The Mallard Hotel in Harrogate. They had taken the train up from London and caught the taxi at the station. The driver was a man in his sixties with a flat cap and an accent that Inspector Zhang...

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San Francisco Night

The tarmac around the front passenger side window was littered with cubes of broken glass. There was more glass over the seat and as he pulled open the door, cubes tinkled down onto the ground. The only thing missing was the SatNav, and Nightingale knew that he wasn’t going anywhere without it. ...

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Private Dancer

But a Thai, when a Thai girl says she loves you, what she means is, I want you to take care of me. And that's all she means. There's a guy comes in here to drink from time to time. Grows peanuts up north. He came over here after he left the Army. Met a girl, set her up in ...

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Nightmare

There was a dance floor at the far end of the room above which a giant mirrored ball was slowly turning. There were several dozen men dancing together and Nightingale couldn’t help but notice that they were all younger, better-looking and fitter than he was. Sweat was already beading on his foreh...

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Once Bitten

he asked. “About a case,” I said emphatically. “I'll be back in two hours, and then you can clear off home.” He didn't appear any happier but there was nothing he could do because, when it came down to it, I was his boss. Not that I'd ever pull rank...

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The Eyewitness

You go to see him and then you come and see me. What is this? A fucking set-up?” “Don't be ridiculous.” Duggan leaned over and patted Solomon's chest, than ran his hand down his shirt to his stomach. “I'm not wearing a wire,”...

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Midnight: The Second Jack Nightingale Supernatural Thriller

Robyn stared at him, her eyes wide in disbelief.‘You’re mad,’ she said. ‘You are stark raving mad.’‘Every word I’ve told you is the truth,’ said Nightingale quietly.‘Ainsley Gosling sold my soul to the devil before I was born?’‘To a devil. Yes.’‘A devil? How many devils are there?’‘A lot.’‘What d...

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Warning Order (A Spider Shepherd short story)

Shepherd yawned as he sprawled across a hammock in the cramped interior of a submarine’s forward torpedo bay. It was the last place he’d expected to find himself – SAS troopers jumped out of planes, abseiled down cliffs and blew their way through locked doors, they didn’t generally find themselve...

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Hostile Territory (A Spider Shepherd short story)

October 1997. Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd yawned as he watched the line of the sunrise inching down the mountains. He was standing at the edge of a palm-fringed white sand beach, listening to the ocean lapping at the shore. Jock McIntyre, Geordie Mitchell and James ‘Jimbo’ Shortt were sitting around a...

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Lastnight

It was from Wainwright, telling him that the plane would be touching down at 9.15. Nightingale yawned. He’d stayed late at Gosling Manor and hadn’t got back to his flat until the early hours. He rolled out of bed, shaved and showered and pulled on a white shirt, a blue tie and a dark blue suit be...

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Nightshade: The Fourth Jack Nightingale Supernatural Thriller

‘Shut up or I’ll snap your neck,’ he said. He’d dressed but hadn’t put his shoes on. Candy had put on her clothes, too, and she stood at the foot of the bed, collecting up Bella’s clothes. ‘All I’m doing is taking you upstairs to clean you. You need a bath. You have to be clean for when we take y...

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The Vets (Stephen Leather Thrillers)

5) “You my father?” asked the small boy, his hair light brown and naturally curly, his skin lighter than the Vietnamese the vets were accustomed to seeing. Lehman ruffled the boy’s hair. “No, kid, I’m not your father,” he said. The boy grinned, showing brilliant white teeth, perfectly even. “Yo...

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My Name Is Lydia (Jack Nightingale short story)

It was always easy to take control while the bitch slept, though in time she would be able to overcome all resistance no matter what the time. Enough moonlight filtered through the thin curtains to allow her to inspect the naked body. The budding breasts were developing nicely, and she cupped eac...

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Inspector Zhang and the Disappearing Drugs

Kaya could be bought in a bottle in any supermarket but Mrs. Zhang made it herself, slow cooking coconut milk, eggs, sugar vanilla and a hint of pandan leaves, using a recipe that had been handed down from her grandmother. She spread it on a slice of wholemeal toast with a little butter and serve...

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Spider Shepherd: SAS: #2

November 1998. Dan “Spider” Shepherd was sipping his first coffee of the day as the sweat from his morning run slowly dried on his skin. He’d take a shower in a moment, but for now he was content just to relax and take in the scene around him. To the far north, the liste...

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The Stretch (Stephen Leather Thrillers)

There was no burning sensation, and surprisingly little pain, just a dull ache and a spreading coldness. His eyes widened as he stared at the face of the man who’d shot him. Unfeeling blue eyes stared back at him. Snow clutched a hand to his stomach and staggered backwards, blood pulsing from bet...

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I Know Who Did It (A Jack Nightingale Short Story)

Mary Campbell wiped her eyes and looked over at the nurse. ‘Has he gone yet?’ she asked. She dabbed her eyes again. ‘Not yet,’ said the nurse. ‘You’ll know when it happens.’ ‘Is he in any pain?’ The nurse shook her head. ‘None at all. The doctor has made sure of that.’ The man who was lying in th...

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Personal Protection (A Spider Shepherd Short Story)

He glanced around him. As usual Jock McIntyre and Geordie Mitchell were still sleeping. Both of them had the uncanny ability to sleep anywhere at any time, no matter what noise and distractions - even gunfire - there might be, yet on a whispered word of command, both would be instantly awake and ...

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First Response

Faisal Chaudhry shook his head in disgust. She was a Muslim by the look of her, so why wasn’t she covering her head? The only reason he was looking at her was because he wanted to know what was happening around London. According to the woman, three hostages had just been released from the Southsi...

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Nightfall: The First Jack Nightingale Supernatural Thriller

‘I didn’t tell you my name. How do you know who I am?’ Underwood was wearing a dark pinstripe suit that fitted so well it could only have been made to measure. There was a gold Rolex on his left wrist, a gold signet ring on his right hand and a pair of designer glasses on his nose. He was in his ...

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False Friends

‘That’s good to hear,’ he said. He turned to face the target. ‘So, safety off, right?’ ‘You got it,’ said Shepherd. Kettering flicked the safety off, put the stock against his shoulder and looked through the sights. ‘It’s set for single fire,’ said Shepherd. ‘Don’t want you to blow the target apa...

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Live Fire

Two were in their twenties, the third in his early thirties, and they all had dark brown skin, jet black hair and were casually dressed in sweatshirts, jeans and brand-name white trainers. The bench was in the Rose Garden, a quiet area of the Paddington Recreation Ground in Maida Vale, north-west...

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Fair Game

It had been three days in the making and now took up most of the back of the white Transit van. The explosives had been packed into aluminium beer kegs, each with double detonators. They had been stacked into the van, two dozen in all. Hundreds of six-inch nails had been duct-taped around the keg...

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Rough Justice (2010)

They were all wearing expensive leather jackets, Armani jeans and limited-edition Nike trainers, and had dreadlocks hanging halfway down their backs. The driver was Carlton Richie: he had just turned thirty and was taking his friends to an illegal drinking den in Willesden, north-west London. Sit...

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Spider Shepherd: SAS: #1

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Inspector Zhang And The Dead Thai Gangster

Bang means “village” and kok is an olive-like fruit. Doesn’t have much of a ring to it, so the Thais prefer to call their capital Krung Thep, or City of Angels. Actually, the full Thai name gets a place in the Guinness World Records book as the world’s longest place name. Krungthep, Maha Nakorn,...

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Natural Selection (A Free Spider Shepherd short story)

He and his comrades were deep in the Belizean jungle, several days walk from the nearest road. ‘Don’t blame the ants, it’s not their fault.’He glanced up. His mate Liam McKay was watching him with a quizzical expression in his dark eyes. ‘Last time I saw a man look that pissed off, he’d just been...

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The Double Tap (Stephen Leather Thrillers)

The sky was beginning to darken and he wanted to reach Llanrhidian before nightfall. Marie gave clear instructions that took them through the city centre and onto the A4118, the main road that cut through the fifteen-mile long limestone peninsula. She had the map on her lap, neatly folded with th...

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The Solitary Man

'Great, now all I have to do is to find a way out of the compound, cross two walls and a moat and I'm home free.' 'Don't get bitter and twisted,' grinned Hutch. 'And make sure you keep it well hidden.' The prisoners were searched on a regular basis by the trustys, but while the searches were gene...

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The First Novels: Pay Off, the Fireman

McKinley was asleep in the car, head resting between the seat and the window, chest rising and falling as he snored loud enough to be heard a hundred yards away. I rapped on the window just behind his ear and he woke with a start. ‘OK boss?’ he asked. &n...

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Inspector Zhang And The Falling Woman

Zhang slipped her hand inside her husband’s as they walked together away from the seafood restaurant. "That was a lovely evening," she said. "Thank you so much." Inspector Zhang smiled and gently squeezed her delicate hand. "It isn’t over yet," he said. "It isn’t every day that I get to celebrate...

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Still Bleeding (A Jack Nightingale Short Story)

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Narrow Escape (A Spider Shepherd short story)

He raised his head. In the faint starlight filtering through the open door of the wooden hut that served as their quarters, he could see an SAS sergeant moving along the row of sleeping men on the other side of the room. The sergeant stooped to shake a soldier by the shoulder and murmured somethi...

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Spider Shepherd 11 - White Lies

Alistair Coatsworth, Ally to his friends. He was forty-nine years old but looked a decade older. ‘People pay thousands to get into the UK. Thousands.’ His nose and cheeks were flecked with broken blood vessels, the result of years at sea and a taste for strong liquor. There were three men sitting...

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