Stephen Leather

¿Matarías por escribir un best seller? Adrian Slater asegura estar dispuesto a hacerlo, y así lo anuncia en una clase de escritura creativa. El profesor Dudley Grose está convencido de que Slater es un psicopata que cumplira lo que proclama, pero la decana de la universidad no le cree, y la policia, tampoco. Sin embargo, cuando desaparece una alumna de la clase y encuentran su cuarto de baño inundado de sangre, la policia se pregunta si Slater habra cumplido su amenaza, y si el libro que esta escribiendo contendra las pruebas necesarias para lograr que acabe en la carcel.El best seller es un libro sobre asesinatos, pero tambien aborda el proceso de la escritura creativa y el cambio radical que ha supuesto la publicacion virtual, al haber creado un mundo donde el asesinato como entretenimiento puede incluso resultar lucrativo.

In what could be his highest-profile mission ever, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is called in to prevent the assassination of a head of state on British soil. As an MI5 agent, Spider is used to going undercover, but when he's asked to assume the identity of the contract killer hired to take out President Vladimir Putin, he knows he'll become a wanted man. And things are about to get more complicated: Spider is told that his MI5 controller and close friend Charlotte Button has been running an off-the-books assassination operation, taking vengeance on the men who killed her husband. Spider owes his life to Button - but this discovery will stretch his loyalty to the limit...

Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice.But what do you do when you believe an undercover cop has crossed the line and aligned herself with the international drugs smuggler she was supposed to be targeting?When a deep-undercover cop stops passing on intelligence about her target, MI5 sends in Dan 'Spider' Shepherd to check that she is on the straight and narrow.Now two lives are on the line - and Shepherd discovers that the real danger is closer to home than he realised.As Spider finds his loyalties being tested to the limit, an SAS killer is on a revenge mission in London and only Spider can stop him.'[Leather] has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real' Daily Mail'Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it' - Sun

'The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist' Sunday ExpressSunday Times bestselling author Stephen Leather's latest edge-of-your-seat thriller.*****Vicky Lewis is a force to be reckoned with: not yet thirty and already Crew Manager in the London Fire Brigade, she's destined for great things.But when she enters a burning building to save a man's life and leaves it with catastrophic injuries, all that changes. She's shunted over to the Fire Investigation Unit, where she's forced to team up with cantankerous veteran Des Farmer, aka the Grouch.When Vicky stumbles across the Grouch's off-the-books investigation into the fiery deaths of a series of young, blonde women, she decides to join him in his search for the truth. The answer is close - perhaps too close. Vicky's already been burnt once, and now she's playing with fire . . .

He used to stop terrorists - now he is one. A heart-pounding standalone thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Stephen Leather.A heart-pounding new standalone thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Stephen Leather. 'He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real, and this is no exception' (Daily Mail on First Response)When a British Special Forces soldier goes rogue, carrying out an attack at a US army base in Syria leading to the death of two men, ex-MI5 controller Charlotte Button is hired to work out what his plan is and to take him down before he can carry it out.Charlotte puts her best man on the case - hitman Lex Harper. It's up to Lex to assemble a crack team and get to the soldier before he carries out what could be a massive terrorist attack. But Charlotte might require Lex's help with a more personal problem too . . .As ex-MI5, Charlotte holds information on thousands of the agency's dirty operations, and keeps a store of those secrets in three flash drives hidden in separate safety deposit vaults. Now someone is taking extraordinary measures to recover the secrets through Hatton Garden-style robberies. So far two vaults have been raided, and two flash drives have gone. If the third is stolen, Charlotte's life will be in jeopardy. While it's down to Lex to prevent a potential terrorist attack on British soil, Charlotte must work out who is after her and what they want.

Dan"Spider"Shepherd está a punto de desarticular una banda deatracadores de bancos cuando su pasado como miembro de las Fuerzas Especiales llama a la puerta. Geordie Mitchell, el hombre que le salvó la vida en Afganistán, acaba de ser secuestrado en Irak y sus captores amenazan con asesinarlo en catorce días. Consciente de que su amigo tiene un pie y medio en la tumba, Shepherd viaja a Bagdad, donde se enfrentará a una serie de decisiones que pondrán en la encrucijada sus propias convicciones morales. Para"Spider"Shepherd ha llegado el momento de decidir entre la vida de un hombre y todo aquello en lo que siempre ha creído...Stephen Leather sigue revelándose como uno de los grandes herederos de Frederick Forsyth y Tom Clancy gracias a esta trepidante novela que nos abre las puertas de la capital mundial del terrorismo y su hervidero de fanáticos religiosos, servicios secretos e intereses comerciales.Nueva novela del autor que mejor conoce los entresijos del terrorismo internacional."Acción pura y dura de principio a fin."-Irish Independent Review"Real como la vida misma."-The Observer

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line - for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission. But when the plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors beat and torture him. Shepherd's MI5 controller Charlotte Button is determined to get her man out of harm's way, but to do that she's going to have to break all the rules. Her only hope is to bring in America's finest - the elite SEALs who carried out Operation Neptune Spear - in a do-or-die operation to rescue the captives. White Lies is a fast paced, seat-of-your-pants thriller which will have you hooked from the first page until the last.

El Saudí es un integrista que recorre el mundo en busca de lugares donde plantar las bombas de Al-Qaeda. Después de que el tsunami de las Navidades de 2004 le impida llevar a cabo una masacre en el paraíso turístico de Phuket, en Tailandia, el terrorista pone el punto de mira en los hoteles de lujo de la bahía de Sydney. A continuación, su gran objetivo será el tren que une París y Londres. Para Dan Spider Shepherd, ex miembro de las Fuerzas Especiales, todo comienza como una simple investigación sobre el tráfico de seres humanos y divisas a través del Canal de la Mancha. Cuando El Saudí se cruce en su camino, no obstante, el agente infiltrado descubrirá que el caso se ha convertido en una carrera contrarreloj para evitar la muerte de miles de inocentes. El terrorista es un thriller de ritmo frenético que certifica a Stephen Leather como digno heredero de las intrigas internacionales de Frederick Forsyth y el tándem Lapierre-Collins. Una obra de acción trepidante que conduce al lector desde los campos de Al-Qaeda en Afganistán hasta la embajada norteamericana de Londres para revelarle los mecanismos del terrorismo internacional y los más oscuros secretos de los organismos que luchan contra él.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. Now working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Shepherd is pitting his wits against the toughest criminals in the country. But when the man who once saved his life is kidnapped in the badlands of Iraq, thrown into a basement and threatened with execution, Shepherd has to decide whether his loyalties lie with his country, his career, or his friend. Shepherd and his former SAS colleagues realise that the hostage has been abandoned by the Government and that officially nothing is being done to rescue him. And with the execution deadline only days away, Shepherd knows that the only way to save the life of his friend is to put himself in the firing line in the most dangerous city in the world -- Baghdad.

Dan "Spider" Shepard ha elegido el camino más duro y peligroso para un policía: agente infiltrado. Traficante, recluso, ladrón, asesino a sueldo... por muy duro que seas, no es fáci

El Saudí es un integrista que recorre el mundo en busca de lugares donde plantar las bombas de Al-Qaeda. Después de que el tsunami de las Navidades de 2004 le impida llevar a cabo una masacre en el paraiso turistico de Phuket, en Tailandia, el terrorista pone el punto de mira en los hoteles de lujo de la bahia de Sydney. A continuacion, su gran objetivo sera el tren que une Paris y Londres. Para Dan ?Spider? Shepherd, ex miembro de las Fuerzas Especiales, todo comienza como una simple investigacion sobre el trafico de seres humanos y divisas a traves del Canal de la Mancha. Cuando El Saudi se cruce en su camino, no obstante, el agente infiltrado descubrira que el caso se ha convertido en una carrera contrarreloj para evitar la muerte de miles de inocentes. El terrorista es un thriller de ritmo frenetico que certifica a Stephen Leather como digno heredero de las intrigas internacionales de Frederick Forsyth y el tandem Lapierre-Collins. Una obra de accion trepidante que conduce al lector desde los campos de Al-Qaeda en Afganistan hasta la embajada norteamericana de Londres para revelarle los mecanismos del terrorismo internacional y los mas oscuros secretos de los organismos que luchan contra el.

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 an unpleasant job has to be done, and gets on with it, even though he is unhappy with the task of investigating fellow police officers.

'Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it' - Sun Spider Shepherd's MI5 controller, Charlie Button, has gone rogue, using government resources to get revenge on the men who killed her husband. Spider is told to betray her. Worse, he's asked to cooperate with his nemesis at MI6, Jeremy Willoughby-Brown, in taking Charlie down. And he will have to cross the assassin, Lex Harper, currently on the trail of two Irish terrorists, who may be able to lead him to his ex-boss. Meanwhile, another high profile mission is about to engulf Spider. President Vladimir Putin is about to visit the UK and a father who lost his son on the downed Malaysian plane over the Ukraine holds Putin directly responsible for his death and wants revenge. Along with everything else, it's down to Spider to stop the assassination of a head of state on British soil.

From the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd and Jack Nightingale series comes First Response, the utterly addictive new thriller by Stephen Leather.London is under siege.Nine men in suicide vests primed to explode hold hostages in nine different locations around the city, and are ready to die for their cause.Their mission: to force the government to release jihadist prisoners from Belmarsh Prison.Their deadline: 6 p.m. Today.But the bombers are cleanskins, terrorists with no obvious link to any group, and who do not appear on any anti-terror watch list. What has brought them together on this one day to act in this way?Mo Kamran is the Superintendent in charge of the Special Crime and Operations branch of the Met. As the disaster unfolds and the SAS, armed police, and other emergency services rush to the scenes, he is tasked with preventing the biggest terrorist outrage the capital has ever known.But nothing is what it seems. And only Kamran has the big picture. Will anyone believe him?A chillingly plausible and pulse-pounding depiction of how London might be held to ransom in a concerted terrorist attack: this is thriller writing at its very best.

Una década atrás, cinco hombres asaltaron la casa del agente del Ulster Robert Carter y le dispararon en las rodillas y la cabeza delante de su mujer y su hijo. En la actualidad, los asesinos se han visto favorecidos por los acuerdos de paz en Irlanda del Norte y viven en libertad... hasta que alguien comienza a ejecutarlos del mismo modo en que ellos acabaron con Carter. Dan "Spider" Shepherd se traslada a Belfast para averiguar si la mano que se encuentra detras de esos crimenes pertenece a Elaine, la viuda del policia, mientras su jefa, Charlotte Button, se descubre en el punto de mira de un jeque que la considera culpable de la muerte de uno de sus hijos en Guantanamo.