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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate a young girl who appears to be possessed by an evil spirit.My Name Is Lydia is about 10,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare.Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan "Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a n...

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...

New Orleans. They call it the Big Easy, but there's nothing easy about Jack Nightingale's latest case.Dead usually means dead, but corpses are coming back to life and carrying out targeted killings.The supernatural detective is called in to investigate, and he soon discovers that Voodoo is behind the spate of murders.Whoever is making the dead rise obviously has a plan - a plan so heinous that even the Devils of Hell are concerned.But there are darker forces...

He's charming and good looking, he makes you laugh and he has a twinkle in his eyes. He's the sort of guy you'd be happy to spend time with. Until the moment when he asks you if you want to know a secret. You say yes, of course, and you lean towards him. That's when he whispers in your ear and everything changes. Within hours you are dead and your soul is gone forever. You've just met The Whisper Man.When supernatural detective Jack Nightingale hears about a rash of suicides across...