Hot blood
By: Stephen Leather
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Dan Shepherd -- 4; Dan Shepherd -- 4.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780753178409; 9780753178416
Subjects: Dan Shepherd (Fictitious character); Fiction; Undercover operations; Kidnapping victims
Description: Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. Now working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Shepherd is pitting his wits against the toughest criminals in the country. But when the man who once saved his life is kidnapped in the badlands of Iraq, thrown into a basement and threatened with execution, Shepherd has to decide whether his loyalties lie with his country, his career, or his friend. Shepherd and his former SAS colleagues realise that the hostage has been abandoned by the Government and that officially nothing is being done to rescue him. And with the execution deadline only days away, Shepherd knows that the only way to save the life of his friend is to put himself in the firing line in the most dangerous city in the world -- Baghdad.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton.