Slow burn / Stephen Leather.

By: Leather, Stephen [author]Material type: TextTextSeries: Leather, Stephen. Spider Shepherd ; bk. 17.Publisher: Leicester [England] : Thorpe, Isis, 2021Edition: Large print editionDescription: 540 pages (large print) ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781785419201; 178541920XSubject(s): Great Britain. MI5 -- Officials and employees -- Fiction | Shepherd, Dan (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Undercover operations -- Fiction | Terrorism -- Prevention -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery fiction. | Large type books. Summary: There are thousands of jihadi brides in refugee camps in the Middle East. Some of them were once British before they were stripped of their citizenship. Were they brainwashed or simply naive when they set out for Syria as teenagers? Spider Shepherd is about to be sent on an extraordinary mission to the Syrian border. There he will have to decide which of the women he meets are a threat, and which of them have useful information. But there is one bride he must take back to the UK whatever her circumstances. She is the wife of a notorious ISIS bombmaker, Salam Jaraf. The bombmaker will only tell MI5 what he knows if his wife and son are brought to him. But it soon becomes obvious that hostile forces are following Spider and Mrs Jaraf across Turkey.
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There are thousands of jihadi brides in refugee camps in the Middle East. Some of them were once British before they were stripped of their citizenship. Were they brainwashed or simply naive when they set out for Syria as teenagers? Spider Shepherd is about to be sent on an extraordinary mission to the Syrian border. There he will have to decide which of the women he meets are a threat, and which of them have useful information. But there is one bride he must take back to the UK whatever her circumstances. She is the wife of a notorious ISIS bombmaker, Salam Jaraf. The bombmaker will only tell MI5 what he knows if his wife and son are brought to him. But it soon becomes obvious that hostile forces are following Spider and Mrs Jaraf across Turkey.

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