Books: Crime Pays ; Soft Target (Hodder & Stoughton, Pounds 18.99 Stephen Leather

Sunday Mercury › March 14, 2005

Linked as:

Summary

STEPHEN Leather is the type of author who doesn't like to disappoint his readers. In his case, you can understand why. A large percentage of them are hardened cons, locked up in the UK's most brutal jails.

'It's true,' he admits with a grin. 'I'm one of the top three most borrowed writers in British prisons.

See the full content of this document

Extract

Books: Crime Pays ; Soft Target (Hodder & Stoughton, Pounds 18.99 Stephen Leather

'That's probably because my books are packed with action, with plenty of seedy crime thrown in for good measure.'

Leather has met a number of his ferociously fervent fans while un...

See the full content of this document