The Double Tap (Stephen Leather Thrillers) by Stephen Leather (Epub)

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The assassin: the world’s most successful contract killer. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card – one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each and every target.

The Judas goat: 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.

The wild card: 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 of 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 . . .

User’s Reviews

Review “Masterful plotting…rapid-fire prose.” –This text refers to the hardcover edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ In a previous Stephen Leather thriller, THE LONG SHOT, ex-SAS Sergeant Mike Cramer is instrumental in foiling an assassination plot against the U.S. President and the British Prime Minister. Along the way, he’s horrifically tortured by a fiendish, female, IRA terrorist in a manner that would have broken lesser literary and cinematic tough guys. But Cramer prevails.Here, in THE DOUBLE TAP, Cramer is dying of stomach cancer. Wishing to go out fighting, he volunteers to act as the bait to entrap and liquidate a faceless international hit man that attracts the attention of the SAS after he kills a friend of the Prime Minister, who demands action. Thus, Mike assumes the identity of a reclusive millionaire businessman known to be on the assassin’s short hit list. With the help of SAS trainers, Cramer practices quick-draw techniques in the hope that he can swiftly out-gun the Bad Guy, who specializes in double taps, i.e., a first shot to the head and a second to the chest close-up with a hand gun. Unknown to Cramer and the SAS, however, the former has another predator on his track, IRA soldier Dermott Lynch, out to avenge the execution of his wife, an IRA bomber, years before during an SAS raid on an IRA safe house in which Sergeant Cramer participated. Who’ll get to Mike first?THE DOUBLE TAP is decidedly better than THE LONG SHOT. In the latter, Cramer shared hero duties with an FBI agent, and, consequently, readers’ loyalties might understandably be divided. Moreover, the potential repercussions of THE LONG SHOT were more international than personal, and the plot as a whole consequently perhaps less engaging. Leather remedies both shortcomings here with a leaner and meaner plot while at the same time providing a clever end-game twist that fools Mike and his SAS controller.It’s a shame Leather thought it necessary terminate Cramer’s career. One can only hope that he was buried with all due honors in the parallel universe of literary fiction.

⭐ Mr Leather has spun an enthralling look into the life of ex-SAS man Mike Cramer. Bouncing back and forth between protagonist and antagonist he keeps it lively. Leather rachets up the suspense along the way, keeping us on the edge of our seats as he builds to the grand finale.

⭐ Enjoyed this author’s work.This one has some more background on the IRA conflict

⭐ Always enjoy Mike Cramer and as a result Stephen Leather’s wonderful story tellingHighly Reccomended

⭐ Great story with a violent, surprising end. Easy 5 stars plus.

⭐ Stephen Leather at his best. Page turning tension from beginning to end. Couldn’t put it down. Enough twists and turns to keep everyone happy.

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⭐ This was a great read, I loved the Mike Cramer character, The book kept me interested until the very end.

⭐ Leather has returned to his best. On a par with The Vets and Tunnel Rats.Good read that will keep reader’s attention right to the final page.

⭐ 3 StarsThe Double Tap is the third book in the Mike Cramer series by Stephen Leather. A thriller with assassins, an ex SAS operative, one last mission, grudges, revenge, the IRA, the FBI, a hit list, and more.An interesting story, if not a little predictable.Thank you, Mr. Leather!

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