Across Britain, violent criminals are walking free - cases derailed by sharp-suited defence lawyers and soft-touch judges - and public fury is reaching breaking point.Into that anger step the New Crusaders, a shadowy group that hunts down offenders who have slipped through the net and delivers their own brand of punishment live across social media to millions of cheering followers. To some, they're heroes. To the government, they're terrorists.Dan "Spider" Shepherd of MI5 i...

You've woken up in a hospital bed with no memory of who you are or how you came to be hurt.But the police are at hand to fill you in on what happened. You were in a car accident. And they have found a dead body in the boot.You want to tell them that you're an innocent man, that you're not a murderer, but you don't know why you were in the car or where you were going. You can't even remember your own name.Then a mysterious woman arrives, offering you a way out of you...

Carolyn Castle is one of the most famous faces in the UK - a soap opera star known to millions. But when she witnesses a gangland killing she has to ask herself if her fame could be the death of her.The killer is charismatic gangster Warwick Richards. A man more than capable of killing again to protect his secret. But does he know that Carolyn saw him commit murder?Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. He was a journalist for more than ten yea...

Haunted houses go with the turf for supernatural detective Jack Nightingale.Not that the house on Gable Street had a problem with ghosts.It was built as a forever home by rock star Jimmy Deadman and his supermodel wife Mary. And life seemed perfect when their two children were born.But soon life in the house on Gable Street is far from perfect. Something seems to resent the children being there. Jack Nightingale is sent in to investigate and he soon discovers that t...

MI5 Officer David White has always tried to be a good father, so when his daughters want to go to a music festival in Israel, he agrees to take them. But his world falls apart when his daughters are killed in the Hamas massacre that left 1,200 innocent civilians dead.White is taken hostage down in the tunnels under Gaza, and Dan 'Spider' Shepherd and a crack SAS team are sent in to rescue him.Safely back in London, White is a changed man. He wants revenge for what happened ...

The first book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working for an elite undercover squad he has lied, cheated and conned in order to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice.But when a powerful drugs baron starts to kill off witnesses to his crimes, Shepherd is given his most dangerous assignment yet. He has to go undercover in a top security prison, a world where one wrong move will mean cer...

Long-term Bangkok resident and former New Orleans cop Bob Turtledove has the knack of getting people out of difficult situations.So when a young man from Utah goes missing in Bangkok, his parents are soon knocking on Bob's door asking for help.But what starts out as a simple missing person case takes a deadly turn as Bangkok Bob's search for the missing Mormon brings him up against Russian gangsters, hired killers, corrupt cops and kickboxing thugs.And he learns tha...

Marianne is an assassin. One of the best in the business.Except killing isn't her business - it's her way of getting revenge. Revenge that has been a long time coming.But there are dark forces who want to use Marianne for their own ends. Dark forces who will do whatever is necessary to acquire her skills.But what they don't know is that Marianne has a secret. A secret that could be the death of them all.Praise for Stephen Leather:He has the uncanny k...

Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows – in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real. The Apostles – a Satanic coven using murder and torture to pave the way for a demon to enter the real world – realise that Nightingale is on their tail. And unleash their own brand of monsters to take him down. With Nightingal...

Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she's his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl, and it seems like her past is another country.But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she discovers that Freeman's company is being subjected to a sinister takeover bid, she decides to help - whatever the risks.The consequences of her actions are lethal, for Mersiha has unearthed a conspiracy of terrifying proportions ...

Six Spider Shepherd short stories in one volume by bestselling author Stephen Leather. The short stories are Hard Targets, Natural Selection, Narrow Escape, Warning Order, Hostile Territory and Rough Diamonds and feature Dan "Spider" Shepherd whose adventures have been Sunday Times bestsellers.Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. He was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Po...

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale used to be a police negotiator in a previous life - back in the days before he confronted devils and demons for a living.So when a young woman embarks on a killing spree in a Houston mansion, Nightingale is the perfect choice to intervene.But there is nothing that Nightingale can do to stop the slaughter. And there is worse to come. More killings. More bloodshed. More young women with murderous intentions.The killings aren't r...