Premise: Hard Landing is a 2004 thriller novel by British author Stephen Leather. Published in 2004 by Hodder & Stoughton, it is the first book in the Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd series. "Hard Landing" is an international bestseller and is available in ebook and paperback.
Hypothesis: Hard Landing is the first book in the Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series from the first decade of the 21st century.