The Sandpit (Audible Audio Edition) Stephen Leather, Paul Thornley, Isis Publishing Ltd Books
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Who was Dan "Spider" Shepherd before he signed up as an undercover cop and began working for MI5? The Sandpit rewinds with an action-packed rollercoaster to his days in the SAS....
Dan Shepherd and his SAS team are sent into the badlands of Afghanistan to train the rebels who are battling Taliban fanatics. But what starts as a training mission in The Sandpit rapidly turns into a life or death struggle with Shepherd and his team very much in the firing line. Soon they are caught up in an international intrigue that threatens the stability of the whole Middle East.
The Sandpit (Audible Audio Edition) Stephen Leather, Paul Thornley, Isis Publishing Ltd Books
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Good read, plenty of action
another great work from Stephen Leather
Brilliantly written by one of my favourite authors. Action packed as always.
I am a really big Stephen Leather fan but i must admit that i didnt enjoy this book as much as other Spider Shepherd stories. The reason being that there was far too much technical stuff that took away from a very good plot. I found myself skipping over these parts ...it spoilt an otherwise good read.
Good read with lots of suspense
Stephen Leather is one of my three favourite authors , everything he writes makes excellent reading .
A good geographical/history lesson but not a gripping story.
The Sandpit is a prequel to the Spider Shepherd series. Just a heads up, I'm not an impartial reviewer of any of Leather's Spider Shepherd books - it's my favourite series. Over the past couple of years, Leather has been releasing short stories of Dan 'Spider' Shepherd's time in the SAS before he stumbled into his life undercover. The novels follow Dan as he goes undercover and usually brings down a criminal or terrorist organisation using the skills taught to him by the SAS, and to a lesser extent, the police.
The Sandpit is similar to those short stories, as opposed to the traditionally published series. That's not to say The Sandpit is a short story - it has body and is longer than some thriller books out there. It's just not a 500page heavyweight that the Spider Shepherd books usually are. There is more plot and intrigue in The Sandpit than any of the short stories written in this series.
The plot was interesting, if far fetched - it took us back in time to Afghanistan, and followed an interesting plot that although simple, drove the story forward. The best part of The Sandpit had to be returning to some of my favourite characters from previous Spider Shepherd novels, like Jimbo, Geordie and Jock. There were also the right amount of Andy McNab jokes for a book about the SAS.
The Sandpit excited me for the next Spider Shepherd novel, to the point I pre-ordered it. I also think it could be a good introduction to the series to people who usually read Andy McNab or Chris Ryan style books - the character of Dan Shepherd is similar to the protagonists from military thrillers, but he'd been dropped into the police force and assorted intelligence agencies. In The Sandpit we get Shepherd being a soldier, but still with his unique personality.
The book seemed longer than the stated 160p, it felt more like a 250p novel, but I'm not sure if that is because it was marked wrong on or that it wasn't as easy to read as Stephen Leather's previous books. I will happily buy any more books that Leather writes in this universe, including ones set before the 'main' series of books.
I received a eARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. But I loved it enough that I purchased it too.
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