Warning Order: A Spider Shepherd short story

Dan Shepherd #ss

by Stephen Leather

An action-packed short story featuring Dan “Spider” Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper. Shepherd almost dies on a training exercise off the Norwegian coast, but his life is on the line again when he is sent on an operation in Sierra Leone. Warning Order is about 14,400 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.

Genres: Fiction

44 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 25, 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

[David Highton · Rating 4 out of 5]

another Spider Shepherd short story - a training exercise goes wrong in the North Sea and his son is born before a vengeful CO send his patrol into Sierra Leone. A lot of content crammed into 37 pages.

[Miss J L Dent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short but sweet

Good intro to.spider shepherd and his story. Having read most of the series, I can say doesn't hurt to read them in order but you can read one offs and get the picture

[Asterope · Rating 3 out of 5]

1999, Arctic Circle.
In Sabre Squad.
Spider & Sue expecting their kid.
On a submarine so they can test an inflatable boat (their mission).
Bad weather and bad decisions with the higher-ups lead to complications and even a death.
Liam, his squad-mate dies during the exercise, after telling the rescuers to get to Spider before him. When it was time for Liam to be rescued, it was too late - he was washed out to see. He's also Spider's son's namesake.
They get punished for making waves about the death and are sent on an op in Africa.
The story then goes into their practice runs for the upcoming mission.