Rough Justice (Dan Shepherd Mystery)

Rough Justice (Dan Shepherd Mystery)

by StephenLeather (Author)

Synopsis

The seventh book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Villains across London are being beaten, crippled and killed by vigilante cops. Crime rates are falling, but the powers that be want Dan 'Spider' Shepherd to bring the wave of rough justice to an end. Shepherd has always known that there are grey areas in the fight against crime. And that sometimes justice gets lost in the process. He has never been comfortable investigating cops, but working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency means that he has no choice. He has to go undercover with an elite group of officers who are at the sharp end of policing, risking their lives daily on the toughest streets in the Capital. But Shepherd has hard decisions of his own to make when his family is in the firing line.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 480
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 22 Jul 2010

ISBN 10: 0340924942
ISBN 13: 9780340924945
Book Overview: To some, revenge is the only law ... The seventh Dan 'Spider' Shepherd action thriller: if you like Andy McNab, you'll love Stephen Leather.

Media Reviews
'ROUGH JUSTICE is a top drawer thriller with blood-soaked action, terrifyingly real villains, spine-tingling menace and a pulsating plot with serious ethical issues at its heart. Another class act from Mr Leather ...' -- Lancashire Evening Post 'One of the strongest and most outstanding books of his career to date. Another real scorcher ... so gripping I just could not put it down' -- www.eurocrime.co.uk
Author Bio
Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. Before becoming a novelist 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. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shoveled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing full time in 1992. 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 and two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website, www.stephenleather.com.