Kill Zone

Dan Shepherd #ss

by Stephen Leather

SAS trooper Dan "Spider" Shepherd in action in Afghanistan, on the trail of a murderous Taliban assassin.

Shepherd went on to become an undercover cop in London in the series written by bestselling author Stephen Leather.

Kill Zone is just under 15,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare.

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. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled 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. Two of his books, The Stretch and The Bombmaker, were made into movies. You can find out more from his website, www.stephenleather.com.

Genres: Fiction, Action

30 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

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

[Neil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another short story featuring Spider Shepherd's exploits while he was serving with the SAS. Although this was only a short read so much seems to have been packed into the pages. In Hard Landing there is mention of a bullet wound scar, but no information about how it happened. This short story cleared up that mystery for me. These short story are ideal if you want a quick read, but they don't really give any insight to the characters themselves.

[Katia M. Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an action based read and quite engaging. It was fast-paced and took me along for a ride. I like military action stories and felt it was well told, although there was some dialogue I felt was for the benefit of the reader rather than the characters where one SAS operative explains to another how some weaponry or tool was used. Aside from that, a quick and tasty read.

[John Ellis · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[David Highton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another SAS short story from Afghanistan in 2002, seeking a duplicitous Taliban fighter who had set up an ambush of 3 paratroopers

[Nathan Flamank · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entertaining and well written, this passes the time nicely and will certainly please his legion of fans, my only negative is that there is very little characterisation to Spyder (which would be nice as this deals with his earlier SAS career and it would be nice to know what sort of character he was back then). I prefer the full length Spyder novels but this is certainly an easy enjoyable read.

[Maggie Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spider Shepherd returns, back in his SAS days - an interesting short story by Stephen Leather

[David Dalton · Rating 3 out of 5]

A short featuring one of my favorite action characters: Spider Shepherd. In other reviews I have called him "The British Chuck Norris". Tough as nails......

[Chris Durkin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my first exposure to Stephen Leather and I was impressed. Starting Hard Landing now and I have high hopes.

[Iain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cracking little read.