Standing Alone, Stephen Leather
Standing Alone, Stephen Leather
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Standing Alone
Matt Standing Thrillers, Book 2

Author: Stephen Leather

Narrator: Paul Thornley

Unabridged: 9 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/06/2022

Synopsis

The new breakneck standalone thriller from bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series.

What makes a good man become an assassin?

A Navy SEAL has gone rogue, selling his skills to the highest bidder as a professional assassin. Ryan French no longer cares who he kills so long as the price is right. His former bosses want him taken down, but they're not prepared to get their hands dirty so they need a Brit to do the job.

SAS trooper Matt "Lastman" Standing is a lethal killing machine with experience in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Plus he's worked with French in the past. It's not a mission he wants, but Standing made a bad choice in his past and it has come back to haunt him. Now he's hunting French in the lawless Wild West forests of Humboldt County, where the US produces most of its legal - and illegal - cannabis.

But French isn't the only predator in the wilderness - there are Mexican cartels, Russian Mafia and Hungarian gangsters - and Standing has to overcome them all to get to his target.

(P) 2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an eBook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful eBook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television. Leather has sold nearly 6 million books with Hodder & Stoughton.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hanlie

When you are in a bit of a reading funk you know Stephen Leather is always a safe bet and this book did not disappoint at all! This is the second instalment in the Matt Standing series. I haven't read the 1st one and fortunately, I didn't miss anything. First off I have to say I learned a lot about......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Ryan French is an assassin for hire. If the price is right he’ll take out anyone you want. He’s an ex US navy seal gone rogue. He is an embarrassment to his country and they want him put down, permanently. Matt Standing is a SAS soldier with quite a reputation and a former friend of Ryan’s, so when h......more

Goodreads review by Melanie Hollin

I've never read a bad novel by Stephen Leather, nor even a mediocre one. It always amazes me how he has managed to produce work that is so diverse yet also consistently excellent for so long. Standing Alone is no exception. Even though it is a format that has been done before (Although to be fair to M......more

Goodreads review by Sue

Standing alone by Stephen Leather. Matt Standing Thrillers Book 2. A Navy SEAL has gone rogue, selling his skills to the highest bidder as a professional assassin. Ryan French no longer cares who he kills so long as the price is right. His former bosses want him taken down, but they're not prepared to......more

Quotes

It's all guns blazing in SAS veteran Matt Standing's second outing Peterborough Telegraph

The action scenes are deftly choreographed and Standing is an engaging protagonist Financial Times Online

[Standing Alone has] the quick-fire pace of a classic Leather guys-with-guns thriller that again hits the target The Sun

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