White Lies by Stephen Leather
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
White Lies is book eleven in the Dan Shepherd action thriller series.
This story is mainly set on the borders between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Dan Shepherd finishes one job for MI5 and is immediately asked to work for MI6 in a rescue mission.
Dan’s not happy about the situation nor with working with an unknown team. When events take a turn for the worse, Dan’s boss Charlotte Button works hard and fast to get Dan the help he needs.
This is the first book that I have read in this series, but I found it worked well as a stand-alone story. The book actually opens with a cross-channel smuggling case and I wasn’t sure that I was going to enjoy the rest of the book; however, once Dan’s new mission got underway the action took off and the story kept me avidly reading more.
There were quite a lot of characters but each had just enough detail to keep them all in my head. The setting fitted the narrative well and I look forward to picking up more books in the series.
Book Description:
Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line – for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn’t hesitate to join a rescue mission.
But when the plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors beat and torture him.
Shepherd’s MI5 controller Charlotte Button is determined to get her man out of harm’s way, but to do that she’s going to have to break all the rules. Her only hope is to bring in America’s finest – the elite SEALs who carried out Operation Neptune Spear – in a do-or-die operation to rescue the captives.
