Spider Shepherd: SAS: Volume 2

Dan Shepherd #ss omnibus 2

by Stephen Leather

The second volume of six Spider Shepherd short stories in one volume by bestselling author Stephen Leather. The short stories are Personal Protection, The Rope, Planning Pack, Friendly Fire, Dead Drop and Kill Zone and feature Dan "Spider" Shepherd whose adventures have been Sunday Times bestsellers. Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. He was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He has sold more than a million eBooks and was named by Bookseller magazine as one of the most influential figures in British publishing. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. Two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were made into movies.

Genres: Fiction, War, Thriller, Espionage

236 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 11, 2014

About the author

Stephen Leather was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. For much of 2011 his self-published eBooks - including The Bestseller, The Basement, Once Bitten and Dreamer's Cat - dominated the UK eBook bestseller lists and sold more than half a million copies. The Basement topped the Kindle charts in the UK and the US, and in total he has sold more than two million eBooks. His bestselling book The Chinaman was filmed as The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan and grossing more than $100 million.

Reviews

[Sue Morcumb]

Great Book. I thought I had given a review of this book, it was exciting and compelling, well written and fast-moving, the story was excellent and I do like the way that Stephen Leather writes his stories, and Spider Shepherd is my most loveable person, he sees fairness and no unnecessary violence in anything and he always comes out the other side one way or another.

[Paddy Flavin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fast Paced Action

These series of short stories are good reads for fans of this genre of literature. Some of the plot lines are a trifle far fetched and stretch credulity at times. The constant reintroduction of the main characters is also a little irksome. Having said that worth packing for long haul flights etc.

[Phil Altimas · Rating 5 out of 5]

a great little collection of short stories that really give you the back story of spider shepherd and introduce you to some of his mates that pop up in the spider books.

the stories are all well written and are very entertaining

[John Ellis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spider Shepher SAD volume 2

Once again I have purchased this to remind me of Dan Shepherds progress in the SAS
A marvelous compilation of short stories.

[ronald barry brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read,really exciting dialogue.

Spider Shepherd is a marvellous character in the book with other named colleagues giving great support to the many story lines.

[Phillip Colver · Rating 5 out of 5]

great short stories

Stephen Leathers does it again, great collection of short stories covering Dan Shepherds life in the SAS, plenty action and plot.

[MALCOLM GEORGE · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good SF Read

Like all the books by this author they are well written and capture your attention and imagination alike. Some of the descriptive terms of places and personnel are over repeated, as I suspect these are individual stories stitched together. That aside enjoyable

[Neil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another collection of short stories featuring Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, and his time serving with the SAS. A couple of them I had read previously, but I enjoyed them, so it was no chore to read them again. All in all I have thoroughly enjoyed all of the books in the series, both full length, and these collections of short stories. The closest I can come to another series similar to these are the Jack Reacher books by Lee Child, but the Spider Shepherd books are definitely my preference. Purely because of Nationality, as The English locations and expressions are easier for me to understand.