Stephen Leather

The powerful and thought-provoking thriller from bestselling author Stephen Leather.

Brilliant thriller writing from a writer at the top of his game.

From the bestselling author of HARD LANDING and THE LONG SHOT comes a fast-paced action thriller.

Leather's latest full-throttle thriller could hardly be more topical . . . it hurtles off the page, grabbing the reader by the throat' Daily Mail'This cracking Spider Shepherd thriller zips along like a sniper's bullet' The SunShould we bring them back?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? And, if they were allowed to return, would they pose a threat to our country?

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.

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

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.

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 Afganistan, acaba de ser secuestrado en Irak y sus captores amenazan con asesinarlo en catorce dias. Consciente de que su amigo tiene un pie y medio en la tumba, Shepherd viaja a Bagdad, donde se enfrentara a una serie de decisiones que pondran 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 creido...Stephen Leather sigue revelandose 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 fanaticos religiosos, servicios secretos e intereses comerciales.Nueva novela del autor que mejor conoce los entresijos del terrorismo internacional."Accion pura y dura de principio a fin."-Irish Independent Review"Real como la vida misma."-The Observer

'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.

'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 . . .

Jack Nightingale era negociador policial de New Scotland Yard. Hasta que le tocó un caso demasiado difícil, incluso paraél: una niña de nueve años se suicida por haber sufrido abusos sexuales y su padre, el principal sospechoso, cae al vacio desde un edificio del centro de la ciudad con Jack comounico testigo. Dos años mas tarde, Jack es un detective privado acosado por pesadillas que sobrevive espiando a maridos infieles. Un dia, despues de uno de sus terribles sueños, Jack despierta escuchando un mensaje escalofriante:Vas a ir al infierno. Profecia que parece comenzar a cumplirse cuando hereda una lujosa mansion y una grabacion en DVD en la que el millonario Ainsley Gosling le revela dos secretos: que es suverdadero padre y que, en apenas tres semanas, coincidiendo con su 33 cumpleaños, una criatura diabolica reclamara su alma.Tras triunfar con la serie del policia infiltrado DanSpider Shepherd, Stephen Leather se pasa al lado oscuro con la irresistible saga de un detective al que, literalmente, se llevan todos los demonios.

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.

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.

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 fácil vivir en la piel de personajes tan extremos sin perder la cabeza. Antiguo agente del SAS, viudo y padre de un hijo al que intenta no perder, Dan se ve involucrado en el caso mas peligroso de su carrera. Porque ahora tiene que infiltrarse en el colectivo mas peligroso para el: un grupo de policias de elite corruptos. Tendra que convivir con ellos, jugarse la vida con ellos en las calles y, cuando llegue el momento, traicionar su amistad.... si es que es capaz de hacerlo. Un trepidante thriller en el que Stephen Leather recrea a la perfeccion el ambiente tenso y sordido del hampa londinense, sumerge a su protagonista en un juego lleno de trampas y mantiene el pulso del lector acelerado hasta la ultima pagina.