The Stretch (Stephen Leather Thrillers) by Stephen Leather (Epub)

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Preston Snow was out of line—so the up-close-and-personal visit was in no way out of character. It was a messy hit, but more messy was the aftermath. Fingered by one of his own crew, Terry finds himself taking the fall and is put away for life. The only person he can really trust in the entire world is his estranged wife, Sam. She must now take over the reins of his organization, find the snitch and—in theory—get Terry off the hook. But after a shaky start, she quickly starts to get her own ideas.

User’s Reviews

“Stephen Leather should be nestling in your bookshelves alongside Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins…Exciting stuff.” From the Publisher When career criminal Terry Green is sentenced to life for a murder he didn’t commit, his estranged wife has two options: walk away from the criminal empire he’s built, or take it over and become as big a gangster as her husband ever was. As far as Samantha “Sam” Greene is concerned, there’s no choice. All the family’s assets are tied up in the business, and family means more to her than anything. But being a gang boss doesn’t come easily to Sam, not when other criminals are trying to take over what’s left of her husband’s empire. As Sam gets drawn deeper into a world of drug–dealing and counterfeit money, she realizes, for the first time, the true extent of her husband’s illegal activities. And she has two burning questions to answer—can she get her husband out of jail? And should she? About the Author Stephen Leather is one of the UK’s most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China MorningPost in Hong Kong. He is one of the country’s most successful ebook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television.You can learn more from Stephen’s website, www.stephenleather.com, find him on Facebook, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/stephenleather.Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com. Read more

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:

⭐ After reading Stephen Leather’s THE STRETCH and, previously, his THE CHINAMAN, this author has become a personal favorite of mine to at least equal the enormously talented thriller scribbler, Gerald Seymour.Samantha “Sam” Greene is fifteen months separated from her philandering husband of twenty-some years, Terry. Together, they’d raised three children: Laura, Jamie and Trisha. Sam had always thought hubby to be just an entrepreneur managing his nightclub, modeling agency, and courier service. Now, Terry is convicted of murdering a small time drug-dealer and is sent off to Her Majesty’s Prison for life. It isn’t until Terry asks Sam to take over the reins of his business that she shockingly realizes the extent of his underworld activity. But, faced with legal fees, mortgage payments, Jamie’s university tuition, and 24/7 care for her debilitated mother-in-law, Sam is forced to oversee dealings in police payoffs, black-market liquor, cannabis smuggling, and the importation of counterfeit currency. Oddly, she proves surprisingly adept at it. And, when Terry is unexpectedly released from the gaol on new evidence, he finds out how talented she really is. Oh, does he ever.There are no heroes in lilly-white hats in THE STRETCH. Though he truly loves his family despite his cheatin’ ways, Terry’s a charming rascal capable of heavy-handed brutality to maintain his criminal empire. On the other hand, Sam proves she can be just as unscrupulous, though she operates with finesse and, um, compassion. In any case, it’s Sam that the reader roots for, certainly not the unsavory copper, Detective Chief Inspector Frank Welch, who made the case against Terry and is now out to get his missus. By default perhaps, the only truly admirable character of any importance seems to be Andy McKinley, the unfailingly polite, dependable, and circumspect bodyguard that Terry assigns to drive his wife on her appointed rounds.The Gerald Seymour novels are consistently engrossing because of the moral gray areas in conflicts at the civilized world’s grittier margins in which his protagonists dwell, and in which battles there are no clear winners and losers, only Pyrhhic victories. Here, in THE STRETCH, Leather presents an unremarkable, basically law-abiding citizen driven to extremes of antisocial behavior in order to protect the wellbeing of herself and her family. Which one of us might not do the same if backed into a corner? If that isn’t a gray area, I don’t know what is.Sam, you go girl!

⭐ It is a very readable thriller, like almost all the thrillers by Stephen Leather. But I like it best for the invention of a delightful woman who was a long suffering housewife, wedded to, and then separated from a gangster. But she turns the tables on him and makes off with almost all of his ill gotten gains, not forgetting to invite her husband to join her!The gangster is less convincing that other such characters created by Stephen Leather, but his wife is absolutely delightful. She makes the novel a comic thriller (if such a thing were possible!).

⭐ The story is compelling and well-written. The only issue I have with it is that ti’s too long!

⭐ one of his better ones although most are very good.The good guys don’t always win

⭐ Ah you know.. Steven has a recipe… His fans have bought into it and why not. It’s smooth it’s warm and it’s predictable

⭐ I’m on a Stephen Leather kick at the moment. I’m buying up everything of his I can find, and I’m finishing them off as a priority, usually one per day or so.This one is up to his usual standard. Well up. It races along with twists and turns, death and violence, humour and adventure, spice and drama. Full of exotic colour, even when the locations are well-known.

⭐ A great read, a morality tale of sorts where the bad guys win and the good guys turn out to be not so good… Leather deserves to be better known in the States. The Stretch was filmed for Sky TV, as was his book The Bombmaker. I read The Stretch in one sitting – Leather’s books generally are next to impossible to put down and this one is no exception. It’s the story of a gangleader’s wife who has to take over the reins of her husband’s organisation when he gets sent to prison for a murder he says he didn’t commit. Gripping stuff.

⭐ Fast moving, page turner! Bit rough in places, but good ending. Characters highly believable. Nice tight plot in UK and Spain.

⭐ Leather’s stand alone novels vary from being ok to pretty poor. This one is ok as I managed to suspend belief and immerse myself in the hierarchy of London villains and their evil ways. The problem is there is not a single likeable character (and there are many) in the novel. You try to like the cheerful, cocky villain but he is so immersed in gangland killings and adultery it’s a bit difficult. As for his wife, just when you start to feel sorry for her (in between her incessant cigarette smoking) she proves herself just as adept in drug smuggling and money laundering. Still, some of it wasn’t bad even though I saw the end coming. He should stick to Spider Shepherd novels.

⭐ This could have been a really enjoyable book.Good character’s, good storyline, lots of action.BUT.The constant anti-smoking barrage?I take it the author is a non smoker with an axe to grind… It got irritating.Especially when heroin addicts were compared to smokers and heroin dealer’s were made out to be better than smokers? Are you mad?Crime including money laundering, violence, drug dealing, flesh trade and fraud are defended and excused for those that just want a big house and private education for their kid’s… Paedophiles are accepted.But smokers? This book bangs on about smoking as the worst crime ever…As a smoker whose heroin addict brother killed my mum for drug money, this repeated comparison of cigarettes vs drug’s ruined the book for me.I’ve never known anyone to assault, murder, mug or burgle for cigarette money. Write what you know. Leave your personal vendetta outside your stories and stop excusing crime that destroys peopl.

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