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Hard Landing (Dan Shepherd Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stephen Leather
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 44166
Media: Paperback
Edition: New
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0340734116
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780340734117
ASIN: 0340734116
Publication Date: August 16, 2004
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 Riveting August 3, 2006
Mr. Paul B. Cadman
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is typical Stephen Leather. Fast, well written, absorbing plot and difficult to put down! Even my wife, who is not a great reader couldn't resist this one! Thoroughly recommended as are all his other novels.
New literary Tough Guy hits the ground running February 14, 2007
Joseph Haschka (Glendale, CA USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
HARD LANDING was the first in the Stephen Leather's series of thrillers starring Dan "Spider" Shepherd, an ex-SAS trooper now assigned to an elite Metropolitan police unit tabbed for deep undercover operations when the usual enforcement methods can't nab the bad guys. Dan's nickname came to be while on an SAS survival training mission and he won a bet on who could eat the most disgusting thing. One normally doesn't see "tarantula" on the menu even in the greasiest curry house.
HARD LANDING was followed by SOFT TARGET and COLD KILL, all three of which I've unintentionally read in reverse order. I'd recommend reading the first book first since, if nothing else, the series is a character development exercise for the protagonist.
Here, Spider is tossed into one of Her Majesty's maximum security prisons after establishing his cover as an armed desperado on an airport warehouse hold-up gone bad. Dan's mission is to nail big-time drug trafficker Gerald Carpenter, currently in the same lock-up awaiting trial. Carpenter is somehow communicating with the outside and masterminding the quashing of evidence and killing of witnesses that would otherwise convict him. Fearing Gerald will ultimately go free, Shepherd's job is to identify the leak and thus ensure Carpenter's conviction.
Spider's job prevents him from having a normal home life with his wife Sue and son Liam, a fact that causes the inevitable friction with the former and neglect of the latter and which is exacerbated by a tragedy that occurs while Dan is behind bars. I previously mentioned in my review of SOFT TARGET (dated 11/4/06 and entitled "A whopping cell phone bill, no doubt") that the author perhaps dwelled too much on Spider's spotty relationship with his son, which caused me to knock off a star from that otherwise splendid tale. With Shepherd, I'm looking for hard-boiled action not agonized soul-searching. (My other favorite fictional Tough Guy, Lee Child's Jack Reacher, never ever moons about engaging in self-castigating guilt trips.) I gave COLD KILL five stars (dated 6/29 06 and entitled "How hardball do we play it?") because it maximized the action and minimized the hand-wringing, and I'm giving HARD LANDING a full allocation of points for the same reason.
Until commencing with the Dan Shepherd series, Leather had pretty much eschewed an ongoing hero beyond a couple of books. With Spider, Stephen has struck gold, and I'm eagerly awaiting the fourth installment, HOT BLOOD.
Hard Landing April 25, 2004
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
A fast pacey thriller, which I could not put down. Well up to theStephen Leather standard. The storyline and characters are so real, Ifound myself so engrossed in it. Ideal for someone with time on theirhands,
Standard Prison story with a cracking end March 22, 2007
D. Newstead (Middlesex UK)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Leather has written some amazing books and this for anyone else would be a good book but not quite as amazing as his early ones. The story starts off with Dan Shepherd being arrested and put in prison to get information on a really nasty drug runner who has killed off most of anyone who can finger him. The scenes are pretty graphic and the action as far as it can get in a prison is pretty hard and fast. The ending makes a huge extra point to the book.
Not bad.
Hard Landing- Stephen Leather September 21, 2004
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Another gripping novel from Mr Leather well worth a read. The main character Dan (Spider) Shepard is ex SAS who left the regiment to become a undercover police officer. He's sent down for a armed robbery which was part on another undercover operation. But instead of ending there he takes on another operation staying in jail to try and prove a serious drug dealer is ordering the murders of witnesses to his case. It's a rollercoster of a story and my only gripe is the sudden end to the story.
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