Takedown

Leather, Stephen

ISBN 10: 1473605555 ISBN 13: 9781473605558

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017

Synopsis

A heart-pounding new standalone thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Stephen Leather. ' He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real, and this is no exception' ( Daily Mail on First Response ) When a British Special Forces soldier goes rogue, carrying out an attack at a US army base in Syria leading to the death of two men, ex-MI5 controller Charlotte Button is hired to work out what his plan is and to take him down before he can carry it out. Charlotte puts her best man on the case - hitman Lex Harper. It's up to Lex to assemble a crack team and get to the soldier before he carries out what could be a massive terrorist attack. But Charlotte might require Lex's help with a more personal problem too . . . As ex-MI5, Charlotte holds information on thousands of the agency's dirty operations, and keeps a store of those secrets in three flash drives hidden in separate safety deposit vaults. Now someone is taking extraordinary measures to recover the secrets through Hatton Garden-style robberies. So far two vaults have been raided, and two flash drives have gone. If the third is stolen, Charlotte's life will be in jeopardy. While it's down to Lex to prevent a potential terrorist attack on British soil, Charlotte must work out who is after her and what they want.

About this title

About the Author

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. You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, find him on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/stephenleather. Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.

Review

This standalone effort from Spider Shepherd author is fast and furious with just the right mix of action, hard men and harsh humour. * The Sun * As tough as British thriller writers get * Irish Independent * A writer at the top of his game. * Sunday Express *

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1473605555
• ISBN 13: 9781473605558
• Number of pages: 384