Spider Shepherd Novels

Rough Justice is the seventh book in the best-selling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.Villains across London are being beaten, crippled and killed by vigilante cops. Crime rates are falling, but the powers that be want Dan 'Spider' Shepherd to bring the wave of rough justice to an end.Shepherd has always known that there are grey areas in the fight against crime. And that sometimes justice gets lost in the process.He has never been comfortable investigating cops, but working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency means that he has no choice. He has to go undercover with an elite group of officers who are at the sharp end of policing, risking their lives daily on the toughest streets in the Capital.But Shepherd has hard decisions of his own to make when his family is in the firing line. * * * Praise for Stephen Leather:He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real - Daily MailThe sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist. - Daily ExpressA master of the thriller genre. -Irish Times

Live Fire is the sixth book in the best-selling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.Mickey and Mark Moore are hard men who live by their own code and leaders of a gang that has made millions at the point of a gun. Now they're enjoying a life in the sun in Thailand.Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is sent to infiltrate the tightly-knit team of bank robbers. But when he does, he discovers that he has more in common with them than he first thought.While he and his Serious Organised Crime Agency colleagues are plotting the downfall of the Moore brothers, a far more sinister threat is stalking the streets of London. A group of home-grown Islamic fundamentalist fanatics embarks on a campaign of terror the like of which Britain has never seen. Car bombs and beheadings are only the beginning . . .And Shepherd is the only man who can stop them. * * * Praise for Stephen Leather:He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real - Daily MailThe sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist. - Daily ExpressA master of the thriller genre. -Irish Times

The fifth book in the best-selling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series, from the internationally best-selling author.Former SAS trooper turned undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. But when a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, Shepherd has to put his life on the line to protect his former enemies.While he is undercover in Belfast, a grief-stricken Saudi whose two sons died under torture in the name of the War on Terror is planning to avenge their deaths by striking out at two people close to Shepherd. As the Muslim assassin closes in on his prey, Shepherd realises that the only way to save lives is to become a killer himself.