Stephen Leather

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

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.

Carolyn Castle e uno dei volti piu noti nel Regno Unito una star delle soap-opera conosciuta a milioni di persone. Ma dopo aver assistito ad un omicidio compiuto da un boss della malavita, dovra chiedersi se la sua fama potrebbe anche diventare la causa della sua morte.Lassassino e il carismatico gangster Warwick Richards, un uomo piu che capace di uccidere di nuovo per proteggere il suo segreto. Ma sa che Carolyn lo ha visto commettere un omicidio?

El segundo libro de relatos cortos protagonizado por el detective sobrenatural Jack Nightingale, quien libra sus batallas en las sombras, en las zonas grises donde demonios y monstruos buscan su presa, donde un error podria costarle la vida, o algo peor.En esta coleccion de nueve relatos, Nightingale se enfrenta a casas encantadas, asesinos en serie que han vuelto de la muerte, espiritus perturbados, muñecos demoniacos y monstruos del infierno.Las historias son: Toc Toc, Tumba de Agua, Las Cartas, La Posesion, Garras, El Manicomio, La Muñeca, La Mansion y Vuelta Equivocada.

Carolyn Castle es uno de los rostros más famosos en el Reino Unido -una estrella de telenovelas conocida por millones. Pero cuando ella es testigo de un asesinato mafioso ella tiene que preguntarse si su fama podria significar su muerte.El asesino es el gangster carismatico Warwick Richards. Un hombre mas que capaz de matar nuevamente para proteger su secreto. ¿Pero sabe el que Carolyn lo vio cometer asesinato?

Jack Nightingale luta nas sombras nas zonas cinzentas onde o mundo real encontra o sobrenatural. Mas quando ele chega em So Francisco para enfrentar um grupo de satanistas intencionados a abrir uma passagem para o Inferno, o perigo esta la fora completamente visivel e definitivamente muito real.Os Apostolos um grupo satanista usando assassinato e tortura para pavimentar o caminho para um demonio entrar no mundo real percebem que Nightingale esta atras deles. E soltam seus proprios tipos de monstros para destruilo. Com a vida de Nightingale e sua propria alma na mira, ele tem somente dias para impedir os Apostolos de trazerem morte e destruiço para o mundo inteiro.

Crianças estão se matando em Tennessee. Isso é uma horrível coincidência, ou alguma força diabólica está por trás disso? Quando Jack Nightingale descobre que existe uma misteriosa lista de crianças q

A killer is murdering Goths with relish - skinning and butchering them. The cops aren't getting anywhere so Jack Nightingale's nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help. Nightingale discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing in common: a tattoo connected to the secretive Satanic child-sacrificing cult called the Order Of Nine Angles. As Nightingale closes in on the killers, the tables are turned and he finds himself in the firing line, along with his friends and family. The Order will stop at nothing to protect their secrets and Nightingale realises that there is nothing he can do to protect himself. Nor can he run, for the Order has connections across the world. It leaves him with only one way to stop the carnage - and that's to take his own life ...

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.

'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.

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.

Jack Nightingale era negociador policial de New Scotland Yard. Hasta que le tocó un caso demasiado difícil, incluso para él: 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 como unico 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 su verdadero 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 Dan Spider Shepherd, Stephen Leather se pasa al lado oscuro con la irresistible saga de un detective al que, literalmente, se llevan todos los demonios.

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" 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.

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...

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.