title: The Stretch (Stephen Leather Thrillers)
author:  Stephen Leather 
description: "Stephen Leather should be nestling in your bookshelves alongside Frederick Forsyth and Jack Higgins...Exciting stuff."
zlib_text: Praise for Stephen Leather
  
  
  ‘A grand finale that will have readers on edge.’
  
  
  Literary Review on Cold Kill
  
  
  ‘A cracking good read . . . Stephen Leather is a master of the thriller genre
  and Soft Target does not disappoint. The background to the drugs trade
  immediately grabs one’s attention and the pace never lets up from then on.
  Leather gives the impression that he has done his research immaculately, and
  his attention to detail is immaculate. The result is a gripping read, the
  equal of anything of its nature being published on either side of the
  Atlantic.’
  
  
  Irish Times
  
  
  ‘This is a breathless, exciting narrative about a male-dominated world and its
  peculiar loyalties.’
  
  
  Sunday Times on Soft Target
  
  
  ‘Leather can dispense high-adrenaline plotting but never at the expense of
  remembering that his characters are humans rather than Action Man dolls.’
  
  
  Barry Forshaw, Sunday Express on Soft Target
  
  
  ‘Reading Stephen Leather at leisure is always a pleasure. The pacing of Soft
  Target is 