Fast Track

The 18th Spider Shepherd Thriller

By: Stephen Leather

Narrated by: Paul Thornley

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.

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

Critic reviews

Stephen Leather writes really exciting action thrillers. It's like being there yourself

The fast-paced action scenes are expertly choreographed; the description of settings - from the luxurious bars where Ankara's gangsters gather, to Dubai's glittering skyscrapers - is brisk and richly detailed. Leather knows the inner workings of the security services. But beyond the enthralling storyline he also asks some tough questions about contemporary Britain - without preaching

average compared to others in the series

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Spiders latest thriller a little less thrilling

Excellent narration by Paul Thornley, but this latest installment of Spiders antics just didn't carry the usual spark. Some twists, but fell flat in the end. I actually had to check to make sure I didn't somehow end the book early. For the first time in the Dan Shepherd series I felt as if I was waiting for the real story to begin, only to find it over.