Penalties by Stephen Leather (MOBI)

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Premier League footballer Gabe Savage is on the way to one of the most important matches of his life when he gets a phone call from his wife.

She has been kidnapped along with their young son. And the message from her captors is brutal: ‘If your team wins, your family dies.’

With the kick-off only hours away, there is only one person Gabe can turn to – his brother Ray, a vicious London gangster. But a dark family secret means that he hasn’t spoken to Ray for years. Can Ray help? And will he?

Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s most successful writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. His self-published ebooks have topped the Kindle charts in the US and the UK and Amazon has identified him as one of the UK’s top-ten independent authors. You can find out more from his website www.stephenleather.com.

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⭐ Author Stephen Leather is perhaps best known for his currently long-running Jack Nightingale and “Spider” Shepherd series. His PENALTIES is a stand-alone novel that veers off into a milieu about as far different from the two series as possible.Here, Gabe Savage is a star Association football (soccer) player with the Premier League team Waldron United. Gabe is only one penalty score away from breaking the league record, perhaps to happen in the next day’s key game with Chelsea. Savage is keen to compete despite having just been told his knees are so deteriorated that additional playing may irrevocably damage them.But then, the morning of the contest, Gabe’s wife Laura and son Ollie are kidnapped by a vicious Chinese triad threatening them with sure death if Gabe doesn’t throw the match. And, by the way, don’t go to the police. Not knowing what to do and almost frantic, Savage turns to the only person he knows that can help.The elements of the plot going in are such – bad knees, scoring record, big game, endangered family ‒ that if one assumes a happy ending then one almost knows the elements of the plot coming out. However, no matter, as getting to the conclusion within the severe time constraints of the inexorably ticking game clock is where all the fun for the reader takes place. Indeed, the mayhem level and accumulation of bodies would satisfy even fans of Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series.The reader should like soccer, or at least have an understanding how the game is played, to fully appreciate multiple chapters in PENALTIES. Unfortunately, I have neither, but that’s my failing, not the author’s.Although the book’s conclusion is otherwise pre-ordained, there’s a very nice plot twist at the end involving familial relationships that’s totally unforeseen. Brilliant, Stephen!

⭐ Good action, many twists and turns. Interesting setting and insights. Interesting that there was no explanation as to why the action man was so good at action, but the story didn’t really need it. Nice quick way of putting everything together at the end.

⭐ A ‘ripping yarn’ in all respects but shows poor editing by both the author and publisher. While the number of bodies left lying about London, mainly by gunfire in an essentialy disarmed nation without any significant damage to the hero of the story, is a bit hard to swallow, one is prepared to accept that as part of well planned thriller. What really grates with me is the hero using a Glock which he ‘took from C K Lee’ to take down a bunch of heavies at the gangster’s house, when the story clearly relates how the hero previously tossed the empty Glock onto the unconcious body of C K Lee in a tunnel under the football stadium. Sloppy editing!

⭐ Garbage from one of my favourite Authors, it lost the plot with all of the murders without any clear reason this just does not happen in London or anywhere else for that matter. it was a nonsense from whoa to go

⭐ Dissapointing from this wonderfull author. Unless you have an interest in soccer this book will bore you .With so many chapters dealing only with the machinations of one soccer game i found myself skipping these chapters altogether so i could get to the story.

⭐ Great read.

⭐ Fast paced and a very enjoyable story. Stephen Leather never lets you down for an authentic uk gangster story .

⭐ This could not have been written by Stephen Leather. I’ve read his other books and this absolutely unimaginative droll story could not have come from him.

⭐ sorry to say quite disappointed by this book . Stephen Leather is an awesome Author , but this book was so predictable that it became annoying.

⭐ A life in the day of a soccer superstar gone wrong … highly intriguing, non-stop action, flows smoothly from set to set, with many interesting characters introduced along the way.

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