The Double Tap, Stephen Leather
The Double Tap, Stephen Leather
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The Double Tap

Author: Stephen Leather

Narrator: Martyn Read

Unabridged: 17 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2006


Synopsis

The Assassin – the world’s most successful contract killer. Ice cool, accurate and elusive. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card – one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each of his targets. An ex-member of the SAS, Mike Cramer is the perfect sacrificial bait. When the FBI discover the next name on the assassin’s hitlist, Cramer is set up to take his place. But Cramer’s past has caught up with him. Ex-IRA extremist Dermot Lynch blames Cramer for his lover’s death, and he’s out for revenge. As Cramer trains for the most dangerous mission in his career, Lynch hunts down his sworn enemy. And the unknown assassin silently closes in on his target. The players are in position for the final, deadly game…

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.You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial/.Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Grace

4.5 stars I really enjoyed this book and I'm just sorry that there it was the last of the series. Mike Cameron is asked to do one last job for his former Colonel. What has he got to lose? What follows is a plot and subplot that weaves together nicely. I did guess the identity of the assassin towards t......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Bought as a quick holiday read, and found this fairly enjoyable. Based around an ex SAS soldier, now dying of cancer, who is pulled in for one last mission. Unfortunately he is spotted by an Ex-IRA man with a grudge and the two missions become entwined. Characters are OK, plot is quite reasonable. If y......more

Goodreads review by Darren

Good book, with a good twist, but I felt let down at the end of the book.......more

Goodreads review by Donna

Actually.. I really liked this book.. It's a pretty good read......more