Stephen Leather

As a big player in the 90s London underworld, Terry Greene has always made a priority of taking care of business personally. Its always good for the troops to know that the boss aint too squeamish to clean up his own mess. Preston Snow was out of line. So the up-close-and-personal visit was in no way out of character.It was a messy hit. But the job was done.More messy however, was the aftermath. Fingered by one of his own crew, Terry finds himself taking the fall and is put away for life. The only person he can really trust in the entire world is his estranged wife, Sam. She must now take over the reins of his organisation, find the snitch and - in theory - get Terry off the hook. But after a shaky start, she quickly starts to get her own ideas . . .The Stretch was filmed as a two-part drama for Sky TV, featuring Anita Dobson and Leslie Grantham.

Underestimate this underdog at your peril . . .Buckle up for Underdogs, an adrenaline-fueled action-thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series. Perfect for fans of Lee Child and James Patterson.He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real Daily Mail A writer at the top of his game Sunday Express Kickass action, high stakes and nail-biting excitement. Underdogs delivers on all with flying colors and then someBest Thriller Books Once a fearless SAS hero, Andy Deadman Bird now battles the harsh streets of London after a catastrophic mission stripped him of his hearing, career, home and marriage. His only solace is Tyson, his fiercely loyal and battle-tested dog.When fate thrusts them into the path of a chilling alleyway murder, Andy and Tyson become the next targets. Who are these relentless hunters, and what dangerous secrets are they willing to kill for?Desperate and cornered, Andy reaches out to his former brothersinarms a team who owe him their very lives. But as they unravel a sinister web of organised crime and deadly political plots, who will be saving who this time?Praise for Stephen Leather Grabs the reader by the throat Daily MailWow! Its SO good. I never thought anyone could equal Spider Shepherd but I was wrong! Reader ReviewExplosive The SunThis book had me fully consumed from the first chapter, and I was really hooked, burning the midnight oil until I finished it Reader ReviewEnthralling Financial TimesIf you enjoy action packed thrillers, then this is one for you. It is full of good characters with a believable plot and a brilliant canine character in Tyson! Reader ReviewA master of the thriller genre Irish Times

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. Its 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 Lexs help with a more personal problem too . . .As ex-MI5, Charlotte holds information on thousands of the agencys 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, Charlottes life will be in jeopardy. While its 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

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.