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Hard Landing - Stephen Leather

 
Description: ISBN 0340734116 / Author: Stephen Leather / Genre: Crime / Thriller

Newest Review: ... the killings and pay offs from behind bars, but in an environment full of psychotic murderers and hardened criminals Shepherd ... more

 ... cannot afford to let his guard slip for a moment, an increasingly difficult task as he uncovers corrupt prison officers and vicious inmates willing to maim a man for the price of a phone card. Worst still, Shepherd discovers first hand just how vicious and ruthless Carpenter can be in his quest for freedom. “Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?” Hard Landing by Stephen Leather was one of those books I did not want to end, I have always been a Leather fan ...more

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Premium Review Hard Landing - Stephen Leather: IF YOU CAN`T DO THE TIME, DON`T DO THE CRIME (818 words)
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“In prisons, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.” Dan `Spider` Shepherd has been there and done it in every sense of the word, but even he is surprised and a little reticent at the latest job his bosses want him to undertake – working undercover in a top security prison. Remand prisoner Gerry Carpenter is facing life behind bars, customs and police officers have compiled a mountain of evidence against the suspected drug baron and it seems to be an open and shut case against him. Unfortunately vital pieces of evidence are being destroyed, with surveillance tapes wiped and important paper work getting ...  Read the complete review

 

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