Friendly Fire (A Spider Shepherd Short Story)

ebook Spider Shepherd Short Stories, no. 10 · Spider Shepherd Short Stories

By Stephen Leather

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An action-packed short story featuring Dan "Spider" Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper in Afghanistan. It's November 2001 and Shepherd is sent on a dangerous mission to a Taliban stronghold on the trail of the most wanted man in the world – Osama Bin Laden.

Friendly Fire is just under 14,000 words long, 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.

Friendly Fire (A Spider Shepherd Short Story)