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***'Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style' - Financial Times***

***'Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series' - Irish Independent***

The explosive new stand-alone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd series

Sally Page is an MI5 'footie', a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities or footprints used by real spies. Her day consists of maintaining flats and houses where the legends allegedly live, doing online shopping, using payment, loyalty and travel cards and going on social media in their names - anything to give the impression to hostile surveillance that the legends are living, breathing individuals.

One day she goes out for coffee leaving the safe house from which she and her fellow footies operate. When she comes back they have all been murdered and she barely escapes with her own life. She is on the run: but from whom she has no idea. Worse, her bosses at MI5 seem powerless to help her. To live, she will have to use all the lies and false identities she has so carefully created while discovering the truth . . .



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Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style * Financial Times *
Entertains and whisks the reader along at a breath-taking pace * Shots Magazine *
Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series * Irish Independent *
The conclusion is as high-powered and explosive as I've come to expect from Leather, and this is another compelling military-grade thriller with characters both old and new * Crime Review *
A cracking Leather standalone . . . It left me breathless! * Peterborough Telegraph *

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      Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
      Publication Date: 23/07/2020
      ISBN13: 9781529345193, 978-1529345193
      ISBN10: 1529345197

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ***'Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style' - Financial Times***

      ***'Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series' - Irish Independent***

      The explosive new stand-alone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd series

      Sally Page is an MI5 'footie', a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities or footprints used by real spies. Her day consists of maintaining flats and houses where the legends allegedly live, doing online shopping, using payment, loyalty and travel cards and going on social media in their names - anything to give the impression to hostile surveillance that the legends are living, breathing individuals.

      One day she goes out for coffee leaving the safe house from which she and her fellow footies operate. When she comes back they have all been murdered and she barely escapes with her own life. She is on the run: but from whom she has no idea. Worse, her bosses at MI5 seem powerless to help her. To live, she will have to use all the lies and false identities she has so carefully created while discovering the truth . . .



      Trade Review
      Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style * Financial Times *
      Entertains and whisks the reader along at a breath-taking pace * Shots Magazine *
      Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series * Irish Independent *
      The conclusion is as high-powered and explosive as I've come to expect from Leather, and this is another compelling military-grade thriller with characters both old and new * Crime Review *
      A cracking Leather standalone . . . It left me breathless! * Peterborough Telegraph *

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