Dead Drop

Dan Shepherd #ss

by Stephen Leather

An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper in Afghanistan. It’s 2002 and Shepherd puts his life on the line to help a 12-year-old boy get revenge on a murderous Taliban enforcer.

44 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 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

[Rob Trans · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is my first experience with the character. Spider is a British sniper in Afghanistan who is seeing all of their missions compromised. Someone on the base must be exposing them. Spider befriends a young Afghani boy who is something of a black marketeer. Spider uses the boy to track down and attack a local Taliban militia. This is a pretty standard military adventure, reminiscent of others.

[Penney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great

I love the spider shepherd series .well written and filled with action and suspence .stephen leather is always a good writer

[David Highton · Rating 3 out of 5]

An SAS story in Afghanistan in 2002

[Robert's Kindle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Teardrop excellentshortstory

Another super short story
From Stephen Leather. Great and gripping read.roll onto the next short story by Stephen Leather. Cant wait

[Neil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another short story dealing with Spider Shepherd's time in the SAS. This one is set in Afghanistan, but as with most short stories everything seemed to conclude almost as soon as it has begun. So unfortunately this read is not long enough to give anything more than an average rating.