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Fiction, Thriller / suspense
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- Paperback Oct 25, 2016 | 9781473604575 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Oct 25, 2016 | 9781473604575 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 25, 2016 | 9781473605589 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Feb 25, 2016 | 9781473604568 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Oct 25, 2016 | 9781473604575 | RRP $24.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Feb 25, 2016 | 9781473605589 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Feb 25, 2016 | 9781473604568 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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The next utterly addictive all-action thriller from Stephen Leather, bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series and Jack Nightingale thrillers.
London is under siege.
Nine men in suicide vests primed to explode hold hostages in nine different locations around the city, and are ready to die for their cause.
Their mission: to force the government to release jihadist prisoners from Belmarsh Prison.
Their deadline: 6 p.m. Today.
But the bombers are cleanskins, terrorists with no obvious link to any group, and who do not appear on any anti-terror watch list. What has brought them together on this one day to act in this way?
Mo Kamran is the Superintendent in charge of the Special Crime and Operations branch of the Met. As the disaster unfolds and the SAS, armed police, and other emergency services rush to the scenes, he is tasked with preventing the biggest terrorist outrage the capital has ever known.
But nothing is what it seems. And only Kamran has the big picture. Will anyone believe him?
A chillingly plausible and pulse-pounding depiction of how London might be held to ransom in a concerted terrorist attack: this is thriller writing at its very best.
Praise for First Response
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The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist - Sunday Express
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Leather has the rare knack of writing in such a way that you almost feel as if you are watching a film . . . I devoured chapter after chapter late into the night - www.crimesquad.com on FAIR GAME
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As tough as British thriller writers get - Irish Independent
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Explores complex contemporary issues while keeping the action fast and bloody - Economist on DEAD MEN
Stephen Leather
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, and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial/.
Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.
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