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  • Light Touch

  • The 14th Spider Shepherd Thriller
  • By: Stephen Leather
  • Narrated by: Paul Thornley
  • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (753 ratings)

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Light Touch

By: Stephen Leather
Narrated by: Paul Thornley
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Summary

The 14th thriller in the Spider Shepherd series promises even more gripping action from The Sunday Times best seller Stephen Leather.

Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice.

But what do you do when you believe an undercover cop has crossed the line and aligned herself with the international drugs smuggler she was supposed to be targeting?

When a deep-undercover cop stops passing on intelligence about her target, MI5 sends in Dan 'Spider' Shepherd to check that she is on the straight and narrow.

Now two lives are on the line - and Shepherd discovers that the real danger is closer to home than he realised.

As Spider finds his loyalties being tested to the limit, an SAS killer is on a revenge mission in London, and only Spider can stop him.

©2017 Stephen Leather (P)2017 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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Critic reviews

"[Leather] has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real." ( The Daily Mail)
"Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it." ( The Sun)

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Enjoyed this ....

More than the last one. As always with Leather, I enjoy the the little insights he gives beside the macho stuff.

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Brilliant narrator

Great weaving of two stories together with skill and suspense. A page-turner as expected from Stephen Leather.

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The best yet

Stephen Leather, is such a good author he leads you in so many on the edge of your seat situations with different characters that are on their own path, that when you leave one character and start on another you can't wait to get back to that character and so on, great book can't for the next book to come out.

Paul Thornley is arguably the best narrator around it's got to the stage where I have started to follow Paul around in his audible life, it's just great when he teams up with Stephen Leather.

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Peter Parker has nothing on him!

As always a good read (or listen). But with the same voice being used for so many characters it was a bit confusing at times.
Spider is my favourite character in all the books I read, but this book wasn't quite as thrilling as usual saying that I did enjoy it, I just expected a little more umph.

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Another Belting Story

God I hate Willowby-Brown! Superb character though. Paul Thornley is by far the best narrator, Stephen Leather the best author of this genre & Spider the best ‘hero’

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Another cracking Dan Shepherd book.

Narrator was excellent and the Dan Shepherd books are great. I whizzed through this book which makes me believe it was really good.

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great book

enjoyed the story, and spider is such a great character. when is the next one out?

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superb

could not stop listening more spider needed and unusually eerie of how close this story is to fact.paul thornley brings spider to life

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great book

another fantastic book by Stephen leather and superbly read by Paul thornly. love the new character Matt Standing great the way the two stories came together in the end. great book must read for all spider shepherd fans 🖒

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much better than the last book in the series.

much better than the last book in the series. enjoyed it to the very end.

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