Stephen Leather's "False Friends," the movie

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: False Friends by Stephen Leather.

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The actor I’d most like to play my hero Dan “Spider” Shepherd is Clive Owen, star of Sin City, Children of Men and Killer Elite. He’s brilliant and looks fit enough to have been a special forces soldier and an undercover cop. He’s got that brooding menacing presence that makes for a great hero, or a great villain.

I didn’t have an actor in mind when I started writing the first Spider Shepherd book – Hard Landing – almost ten years ago. I don’t know how most writers work but when I’m writing a scene I tend to picture myself as the hero. That’s not to say that I see myself as a thirty-something action hero who can jump out of a plane with guns blazing. It’s just that the dialogue comes from me and as I write I imagine I am in the scene relating to the characters. Also I tend to keep the description of my heroes as brief as possible. That’s an...[read on]

False Friends is the ninth book in the bestselling Dan "Spider" Shepherd series.

Learn more about the book and author at Stephen Leather's website and blog.

My Book, The Movie: False Friends.

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