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Zusatztext A writer at the top of his game. Informationen zum Autor 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. Leather has sold nearly 6 million books with Hodder & Stoughton. Klappentext "Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line -- for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission. But when the rescue plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors beat and torture him. Shepherd's MI5 controller Charlotte Button is determined to get her man out of harm's way, but to do that she's going to have to break all the rules. Her only hope is to bring in America's finest -- the elite SEALs who carried out Operation Neptune Spear -- in a do-or-die operation to rescue the captives"-- Zusammenfassung WHITE LIES is a fast paced, heart-pounding thriller that will have you hooked from the first page until the last - the eleventh Spider Shepherd book in Stephen Leather's bestselling series.
