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Rough Justice by Leather, Stephen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Rough Justice about?
Amazon.co.uk Review With such pacy and astringent thrillers as The Fireman and The Chinaman , Stephen Leather has acquired a keen following. The author (who divides his time between Bangkok and London) began his career in a fashion common to many thriller writers: as a journalist who decided he could write a better thriller than most of the current crop of practitioners. Its a conviction that hes proved (both to himself and to readers) several times over. Rough Justice , his latest, is characteristically in-your-face fare, the kind of crime/thriller writing that wastes no words in delivering the goods. All over London, criminals are being viciously attacked and left bleeding or crippled by vigilante cops. For some, this is no great tragedy -- after all, crime rates appear to be on the decrease. But it is inevitable that the situation must change, and Dan Spider Shepherd, working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, is instructed by his bosses that this form of justice without benefit of law court has to end. Shepherd, of course, has always been fully aware that fighting crime is a deeply ambiguous business, and that rules now and then have to be broken. But he realises that
Who reads Rough Justice?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Leather, Stephen
- Publisher
- Hodder
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.87 / 5 (142 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13