Stephen Leather

Welathy Russians are being assassinated in London and MI5 assigns Spider Shepherd to the case. The assassinations arn't political - they're personal. Then asked by ex-colleagues to hunt down a former Taliban operative, Spider is forced to decide between his sense of justice and his job. -- Blurb.

True Colours

Shaun Clark

Good story, let down by some shocking editing (or lack of).

Misspellings, fractured sentence and mistakes - what happened?

Some of the Spider books are a little hit and miss, as if he's dragged the series on further than he expected and still needs to drop odd references and characters in as callbacks.

What I've noted in some of the recent books is he's making more social commentary and speaking his mind as an author, and perhaps these call backs could be dropped as they never really seem to push the story on. What frustrates me sometimes is SL brings some great characters, dialogue, facts etc. into the story but his regulars sometimes (Razor, the Major, Liam) etc may as well not exist in terms of plot.

Still, a fair enough read but need to knock a star off for the grammar issues

True Colours

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