Tango One (Stephen Leather Thrillers) by Stephen Leather (Epub)

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In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police’s training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives. Their brief? To become criminals; to work their way up through whatever criminal organisations they can get access to, and to collate evidence against the criminals they come across. Their target? One of the world’s biggest drug dealers, Den Donovan, alias ‘Tango One’ – number one on HM Customs and Excise’s List of most wanted criminals.

Three years later all the recruits are getting close to their target. Too close, perhaps, to remember the rules . . .

User’s Reviews

Review “Stephen Leather should be nestling in your bookshelves alongside Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins…Exciting stuff.” From the Publisher In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police training center. All three have secrets in their past that they’re eager to put behind them. But the Met has other plans for Jamie, Bunny, and Tina. They’re to join a team of undercover detectives, a secret unit involved in the long–term penetration of criminal gangs. Their target? One of the world’s major drug dealers: Den Donovan—alias “Tango One.” A man so rich and powerful that he’s virtually untouchable. But as the three recruits close in on their quarry, they’re unaware that someone is pursuing an alternative agenda. Someone who has deliberately put their lives on the line.

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⭐ Two of my favorite thriller writers are the English authors Gerald Seymour and Stephen Leather. The former impels his heroes, otherwise rather average British citizens, into harm’s way in ideological conflicts at the world’s grotty margins, and forces them to survive while winning victories that are, at best, Pyrrhic in nature. In Seymour’s world, there is no absolute right or wrong, only gray areas, and his characters, like the reader, are carried along by currents more powerful than the individual. In contrast, Leather defines characters that drive the plot and reveal both their good and bad natures in the process. In Leather’s thrillers – at least the few I’ve read to date – the protagonist straddles the line between law-abiding and not, perhaps demonstrating what each of us is capable of if the right pressure is exerted.Here, TANGO ONE, i.e. the individual “most wanted” by Her majesty’s Customs and Excise, is international drug dealer and London resident, Den Donovan. In the book’s first 80 pages, which set up the remaining 400, Donovan comes across as a right bloody SOB – capable of orchestrating and filming the torture execution of an undercover agent, and sending the video to C&E as a warning taunt. This event causes Customs and MI6 to recruit as new deep cover agents three young applicants to London’s Metropolitan Police – Jamie, Tina and Warren, all of whom have a history of minor criminality that will likely hinder their careers as uniformed officers, but will make them believable members of the underworld as they try to get close to Den and his illegal enterprise. The narrative then jumps ahead three years to when Donovan’s 9-year old son, Robbie, catches his mother, Vicky, in bed with Den’s accountant, Sharkey. The adulterous pair flee the country to escape Den’s wrath, while Robbie moves in with Den’s sister and her husband. Donovan now must return to England from overseas, where he’s been busy setting up his next big drug deal with the Colombians, to sort out his family problems. On his return, Den discovers that Sharkey also absconded with $60 million of his money – some of which was to be used to pay the Colombians, who don’t take kindly to being stiffed. As Den struggles to solve his personal, business, and financial difficulties, he eventually comes into contact with the trio of undercover agents, who surface about halfway through the book.As TANGO ONE begins, the reader might be forgiven for believing that the plot’s protagonists will be Jamie, Tina, and Warren. Not so. The novel’s “hero”, or at least the character the reader will likely end up cheering on, is Den himself, especially as the trio’s MI6 controller ultimately reveals an agenda of his own that would not amuse Her Majesty. Furthermore, as Donovan explains the Game between drug importers and drug enforcement, the former have the opportunity for riches while the latter have the opportunity to advance their careers, and the mass of citizenry in the middle only suffers no matter who wins. So, while Donovan would perhaps not be someone you’d want marrying your daughter, he reveals a human and sometimes quasi-honorable side that goes a long way to ameliorating one’s first impression, at least to the point that you might be willing to have a pint with the man.The essence of a Stephen Leather hero is his (or her) capacity for both good and evil. And though a Leather plot invariably has a nice and tidy ending far different from the beguilingly ambiguous conclusion of a Seymour thriller, it’s the chameleon-like quality of Stephen’s protagonists that places all of his books on my Wish List.

⭐ One original from Leather.This time the bad guy gets the money and the girland lives happily ever after.The question is who is the bad guy and who arethe good guys.Leather advances moral dilemmas that have no easy answer.All assumptions can be reversed and its up to the reader to decide if the badguys are the cops or the robbers.The writing is the usual high quality Leather the characters have depth,Leather’s tender understanding of parents and son relationship remindsof Spider and the depiction of current London life may not be approved by theLondon Tourism Board but it rings true nevertheless.A very good read.D V Kokkinos

⭐ Stephen Leather is not a name that is well known in America and that is a shame, however, if he becomes well known the price of his books will go up.Stephen Leather writes tight, gripping, edge of your seat action – period. If you enjoy the action genre then you will love this guy. The only thing I don’t like about his books is the fact that once I start reading one, I can’ t put it down.

⭐ Typical Stephen Leather always a good read highly recommend

⭐ Stephen is a great author and his earlier work such as the Chinaman had so much more variety. Now he is doing all this undercover stuff and I’m afraid its just not me. Tango one is well written, believable… but so similar to other undercover novels that I am afraid I could no class it great. I wish he would go back to his earlier variety of material. That’s just me though

⭐ Interesting characters. The story unfolded beautifully.

⭐ A very good read. I truly enjoyed reading this book

⭐ I greatly enjoyed this book – sometimes I find myself skipping paragraphs when getting bored but not on this occasion – read every line ! And I was not expecting the twist at the end – a real surprise.

⭐ Great read with plenty of twists and turns with a unexpecting finish can recommend this book or any books by this author

⭐ This is a good book, fast moving, with a slightly less than credible human touch to the characters. Nonetheless, worth reading.

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