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Light Touch
- The 14th Spider Shepherd Thriller
- Narrated by: Paul Thornley
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
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The 14th thriller in the Spider Shepherd series promises even more gripping action from The Sunday Times best seller Stephen Leather.
Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice.
But what do you do when you believe an undercover cop has crossed the line and aligned herself with the international drugs smuggler she was supposed to be targeting?
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- Kim Casey
- 31-08-2022
One of his best
One of S L best with a moral dilemma that I’m not sure which way I would drop myself . Same way as spider I my fist thought. But ah the greater good dilemma ?
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- LYNNE CEPROW
- 18-01-2022
Fabulous
I am addicted to this series. Loved every minute of it. The only fault I could find annoying was that the two leading characters both has very similar names which if you are not aware of it, it could confuse the reader. Narrator fabulous as always.
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- Raymond
- 26-04-2018
YUK. Misled into Boredom.
Listened to first 3 chapters 4 times, thought it was a thriller but turned out to be a violent war story with military jingo and was not my cup of tea without some characters and story. Boring drag-on chest beating sleeping pill.
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