Black Ops by Stephen Leather
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Black Ops is book twelve of the Dan (Spider) Shepherd action adventure thriller series.
This story has three main threads. Firstly a possession of drugs incident for Dan’s teenage son, secondly an ‘off the books’ case to stop a terrorist group from buying arms, and thirdly the infiltration of a group planning to assassinate the Russian leader when he visits Britain.
This was quite a complex story and I did wonder how the author would draw them all together, but the three parts worked well giving the reader suitable breaks between the action elements. There’s just enough technical knowhow about weapons in spits and spats for those who might be interested, although I mainly skipped over these, but it didn’t deter from my enjoyment of the story as a whole.
Another good book in this series. I really must seek out more of them to read.
Book Description:
In what could be his highest-profile mission ever, Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is called in to prevent the assassination of a head of state on British soil. As an MI5 agent, Spider is used to going undercover, but when he’s asked to assume the identity of the contract killer hired to take out President Vladimir Putin, he knows he’ll become a wanted man.And things are about to get more Spider is told that his MI5 controller and close friend Charlotte Button has been running an off-the-books assassination operation, taking vengeance on the men who killed her husband. Spider owes his life to Button – but this discovery will stretch his loyalty to the limit . . .
