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The 14th thriller in the Spider Shepherd series promises even more unputdownable action from The Sunday Times bestseller Stephen Leather.

To some, revenge is the only law . . . The seventh Dan 'Spider' Shepherd action thriller: if you like Andy McNab, you'll love Stephen Leather.

Who was Dan 'Spider' Shepherd before he signed up as an undercover cop and began working for MI5? The Sandpit rewinds with an action-packed rollercoaster to his days in the SAS... Dan Shepherd and his SAS team are sent into the badlands of Afghanistan to train the rebels who are battling Taliban fanatics. But what starts as a training mission in The Sandpit rapidly turns into a life or death struggle with Shepherd and his team very much in the firing line. Soon they are caught up in an international intrigue that threatens the stability of the whole Middle East. ‘Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it.’ Sun ‘The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist.’ Daily Express ‘A master of the thriller genre.’ Irish Times

Two gruesome murders have occurred, and both victims have an ace of spades impaled on their chests. It is detective Nick Wright who, hunting for a motive, must return to Vietnam to unearth the secrets of the past.

The eighth Dan 'Spider' Shepherd thriller: up-to-the-minute action adventure with unbeatable pace.

There's trouble in paradise ... or is it murder? The third explosive Matt Standing thriller from the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series.

The powerful and thought-provoking thriller from bestselling author Stephen Leather.

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 . . .

The Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as their plaything, travelling without borders and living lives of unimaginable luxury without fear or restraint.But when an assassin starts killing off some of the world's richest men, an oligarch with friends in high places seeks the protection of MI5. And Spider Shepherd is placed in the firing line.But while Shepherd has to save the life of a man he neither likes nor respects, he has to deal with a face from his past. The Taliban sniper who put a bullet in his shoulder turns up alive and well and living in London.And Shepherd is in no mood to forgive or forget.

The 15th thriller in the Spider Shepherd series promises even more unputdownable action from the Sunday Times bestseller Stephen Leather.

The ninth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. The most wanted man in the world is dead. Now those loyal to him seek revenge. When Navy Seals track down and kill Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, it's obvious there was a traitor on the inside. After the false friends are revealed to be two British students, Malik and Chaudhry - former Islamic fundamentalists recruited by MI5 - they become targets themselves. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd must teach the pair how to survive undercover with al-Qaeda closing in. But Spider is not used to playing the handler. And with the line between mentor and friend beginning to blur, and a terrorist plot putting thousands of lives at stake, can he protect everyone before it's too late?

Jack Nightingale was a cop who quit his job over a little girl's death. He's saved his own soul from a devil, and now he's haunted by the cries for help of that same little girl. Is she trapped in eternal torment? Or are demons torturing and deceiving him in order to gain the ultimate prize? Nightingale will have to face down the powers of the police, south London gangs and Hell itself to find out.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd returns in the third stunning action thriller from bestselling author Stephen Leather.

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.

The 17th thriller in the Spider Shepherd series by Sunday Times bestseller Stephen Leather.

THE NEW MUST-READ SPIDER SHEPHERD THRILLER The target - the Prime Minister. The assassins - hard-bitten jihadists with nothing to lose. The only man who can stop them? Dan Spider Shepherd. But Shepherd's reputation is also on the line - he helped get one of the jihadists into the UK during the final days of the War in Afghanistan. Now he has to track down the man whose life he once saved. But the assassins aren't lone wolf killers - someone much more devious is pulling their strings. And the clock is ticking . . .

' The action scenes are deftly choreographed and Standing is an engaging protagonist' Financial Times'The quick-fire pace of a classic Leather guys-with-guns thriller that again hits the target' The SunWhat makes a good man become an assassin?A Navy SEAL has gone rogue, selling his skills to the highest bidder as a professional assassin. Ryan French no longer cares who he kills so long as the price is right. His former bosses want him taken down, but they're not prepared to get their hands dirty so they need a Brit to do the job.SAS trooper Matt "Lastman" Standing is a lethal killing machine with experience in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Plus he's worked with French in the past. It's not a mission he wants, but Standing made a bad choice in his past and it has come back to haunt him. Now he's hunting French in the lawless Wild West forests of Humboldt County, where the US produces most of its legal - and illegal - cannabis.But French isn't the only predator in the wilderness - there are Mexican cartels, Russian Mafia and Hungarian gangsters - and Standing has to overcome them all to get to his target.

WOULD YOU GIVE UP YOUR SOUL TO SAVE A CITY?Teenagers are being possessed and turning into sadistic murderers. Priests can't help, nor can psychiatrists. So who is behind the demonic possessions? Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate, and finds his own soul is on the line.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd returns in the sixth finger-on-the-pulse action adventure in the series: if you like Andy McNab, you'll love Stephen Leather.

The fourth in the Jack Nightingale supernatural thriller series by bestselling author Stephen Leather.

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 next action-packed standalone thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Stephen Leather.

The brand new, action-packed thriller from Stephen Leather.

When you're caught between two evils, only the most decisive will survive. The thirteenth book in action supremo Stephen Leather's Spider Shepherd series is his most pulse-pounding yet . . . A violent South London gang will be destroyed if Dan 'Spider' Shepherd can gather enough evidence against them while posing as a ruthless hitman. What he doesn't know is that his work as an undercover agent for MI5 is about to intersect with the biggest terrorist operation ever carried out on British soil. Only weeks before Shepherd witnessed a highly skilled IS sniper escape from a targeted missile strike in Syria. But never in his wildest dreams did he expect to next come across the shooter in a grimy East London flat. Spider's going to have to proceed with extreme caution if he is to prevent the death of hundreds of people, but at the same time, when the crucial moment comes he will have to act decisively. The clock is ticking and only he stands between us and Armageddon.... 'Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it' Sun

Soft Target is the second book in the best-selling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. There's only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop . . . and that's a corrupt cop with a gun. When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and start to rip off drug dealers at gunpoint, undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is given his most dangerous mission so far. Shepherd is ordered to infiltrate the tight-knit team, to gain their confidence and to ultimately betray them. Facing men with guns is nothing new for the former SAS trooper, but it's the first time he's had to investigate his own. And the job couldn't have come at a worse time for him. As Shepherd finds himself in the firing line, he has to decide exactly where his loyalties lie."

The fourth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. Now working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, Shepherd is pitting his wits against the toughest criminals in the country. But when the man who once saved his life is kidnapped in the badlands of Iraq, thrown into a basement and threatened with execution, Shepherd has to decide whether his loyalties lie with his country, his career, or his friend. Shepherd and his former SAS colleagues realise that the hostage has been abandoned by the Government and that officially nothing is being done to rescue him. And with the execution deadline only days away, Shepherd knows that the only way to stop his friend being murdered is to put himself in the firing line in the most dangerous city in the world - Baghdad.

A heart-pounding, action-packed thriller by international bestselling author Stephen Leather

Jack Nightingale found it hard enough to save lives when he was a cop. Now he needs to save a soul - his sister's. But to save her he has to find her and they've been separated since birth. When everyone Jack talks to about his sister dies horribly, he realises that someone, or something, is determined to keep them apart. If he's going to save his sister, he's going to have to do what he does best - negotiate. But any negotiation with the forces of darkness comes at a terrible price. And first Jack must ask himself the question: is every soul worth saving?

The twelfth heart-pounding thriller in Stephen Leather's bestselling Spider Shepherd series.

The explosive new stand-alone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd series

The new edge-of-your-seat novel in the thrilling Spider Shepherd series

The explosive new thriller in the Spider Shepherd series Dan 'Spider' Shepherd's career path - soldier, cop, MI5 officer - has always put a strain on his family. So he is far from happy to learn that MI5 is using teenagers as informants. Parents are being kept in the dark and Shepherd fears that the children are being exploited. As an undercover specialist, Shepherd is tasked with protecting a 15-year-old schoolboy who is being used to gather evidence against violent drug dealers and a right-wing terrorist group. But when the boy's life is threatened, Shepherd has no choice but to step in and take the heat. And while Shepherd's problems mount up on the job front, he has even greater problems closer to home. His son Liam has fallen foul of the Serbian Mafia and if Shepherd doesn't intervene, Liam will die. Praise for Stephen Leather 'A master of the thriller genre' Irish Times 'As tough as British thrillers get . . . gripping' Irish Independent 'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express

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 Nightingale's life - and his very soul - on the line, he has only days to stop The Apostles from bringing death and destruction to the entire world.

The fifth Dan 'Spider' Shepherd thriller from the internationally bestselling author.

The Vietnam War provides the vital clue to a brutal murder in this powerful thriller of buried secrets and retribution.

The assassin: the world's most successful contract killer. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card - one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each and every target. The Judas goat: an ex-member of the SAS, Mike Cramer is the perfect sacrificial bait. When the FBI discover the next name on the assassin's hitlist, Cramer is set up to take his place. The wild card: Cramer's past has caught up with him. Ex-IRA extremist Dermot Lynch blames Cramer for his lover's death - and he's out for revenge. As Cramer trains for the most dangerous mission of his career, Lynch hunts down his sworn enemy. And the unknown assassin silently closes in on his target. The players are in position for the final deadly game . . . *********** PRAISE FOR STEPHEN LEATHER 'A master of the thriller genre' Irish Times 'A writer at the top of his game' Sunday Express 'In the top rank of thriller writers' Jack Higgins

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 certain death. As Shepherd gambles everything to move in on his quarry, he soon realises that the man he is hunting is even more dangerous than the police realise. And that he is capable of striking outside the prison walls and hitting Shepherd where it hurts most.

A classic Hong Kong heist thriller by bestselling author Stephen Leather

Brilliant thriller writing from a writer at the top of his game.

The third relentlessly powerful and tough thriller from the bestselling author of HARD LANDING and THE EYEWITNESS

The hugely successful thriller packed with action, from bestselling author Stephen Leather. schovat popis

From the bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd thrillers, this is Stephen Leather's breakthrough thriller: when a man loses his wife and his last living daughter he wants justice, and he wants revenge . . .

Crimes are few and far between in the city-state of Singapore and the crimes that do occur are usually solved quickly and efficiently. But when there's a crime that has the police baffled, it's Inspector Zhang that they turn to. He is one of the best detectives on the force. He is also a fan of detective fiction, and he loves nothing more than putting his observation skills to the test. Form locked-room mysteries to disappearing drugs and murders disguised as suicide, Inspector Zhang is able to draw on his experience as a detective along with tricks he has learned from the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Assisted by the inexperienced Sergeant Lee, Inspector Zhang solves brain-teasing mysteries in the style of Sherlock Holmes and Poirot but with a modern twist. See if you can solve the crimes before the Inspector - the clues are there!

He used to stop terrorists - now he is one. A heart-pounding standalone thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Stephen Leather.

Friendships forged in the heat of combat can be stronger than anything. So when SAS trooper Matt Standing is told that the former Navy SEAL who saved his life is in trouble, he doesn't hesitate to go to his aid - even if that means flying half way around the world to Los Angeles. Navy SEAL-turned-bodyguard Bobby-Ray Barnes has been accused of killing the man he was supposed to be protecting. Three other bodyguards were also killed and now Bobby-Ray is on the run. The dead client was a Russian oligarch with connections to the Kremlin. But who wanted him dead? And if Bobby-Ray wasn't the killer, who carried out the assassination and why is Bobby-Ray being framed? Standing is the only man who can answer those questions - providing he can stay alive long enough. For that he'll need the help of an old SAS friend, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, and a ruthless network of secret service operatives. Praise for bestselling author Stephen Leather 'The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express 'A master of the thriller genre' Irish Times 'As tough as British thriller writers get' Irish Independent

Jack Nightingale's life is turned upside down the day that he inherits a mansion from a man who claims to be his father. However, it comes with a warning, that Nightingale's soul was sold at birth and a devil will come to claim it on his 33rd birthday - just three weeks away.

An electrifying thriller from the bestselling author of HARD LANDING.

Pete wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is young, stunning, and a pole dancer. In a roller-coaster ride of sex, drugs, and deception, Pete discovers that his own very private dancer is not all she claims to be. Far from being the love of his life, Joy is his own personal nightmare!

Jack Solomon is a messenger of death. Working in the fractured remains of Yugoslavia, his task is to identify the victims of ethnic cleansing and to tell families that their loved ones are never coming home. Years of working in the killing fields have desensitised the former London policeman to the horrors of war, but when a truck containing twenty-six bodies is pulled from a lake, Solomon is unable to walk away from the case. He sets out to track down the only survivor of the massacre, a young girl on the run from the killers. Solomon's hunt for the last witness leads from the brothels of Sarajevo to the high-stakes world of London's internet prostitution - where he will discover that the killers are closer to home than he thinks...

Two weeks before a near-certain death sentence drug smuggler McMillan escapes from a high-security prison in Bangkok, never to be seen in Thailand again.

Exploring the dark psyche of serial killers, the narrative reveals that their violent impulses never truly fade away; they merely lie dormant, waiting to resurface. The story delves into the complexities of their minds, examining the psychological factors that drive them and the chilling reality that the desire to kill remains ever-present.

A Londra, tre giovani reclute si preparano ad affrontare il loro primo giorno nella Polizia. Sanno che quella è la loro unica occasione per gettarsi alle spalle un passato non troppo pulito. Non sospettano di essere stati scelti per portare a termine un piano molto rischioso: infiltrarsi nei loschi affari dell'uomo più ricercato d'Inghilterra. Ma quando saranno finalmente vicini a incastrare la loro preda, scopriranno che la linea che separa il bene dal male può essere talvolta troppo sottile...

Dieci anni fa, Andrea Hayes era la migliore nel suo campo. Era giovane, era bella, era spietata. Costruiva bombe per conto dell'IRA: ordigni micidiali che seminavano morte e distruzione. Poi tutto è cambiato, i rimorsi e la paura hanno avuto il sopravvento. Andrea si è trasferita da Dublino a Londra, si è sposata, ha una figlia, è felice... Ma proprio quando tutto sembra dimenticato, il passato torna a bussare alla sua porta. Katie, la figlia adorata, viene rapita; e per riaverla Andrea dovrà sottostare al ricatto crudele di uomini che dimostrano di sapere davvero troppe cose di lei.

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A Londra, tre giovani reclute si preparano ad affrontare il loro primo giorno nella Polizia. Sanno che quella è la loro unica occasione per gettarsi alle spalle un passato non troppo pulito. Non sospettano di essere stati scelti per portare a termine un piano molto rischioso: infiltrarsi nei loschi affari dell'uomo più ricercato d'Inghilterra. Ma quando saranno finalmente vicini a incastrare la loro preda, scopriranno che la linea che separa il bene dal male può essere talvolta troppo sottile...

Der Antiquitätenhändler Bob Turtledove, früher einmal Polizist in New Orleans, lebt seit Jahren in Thailand und hilft Leuten, wenn sie in Schwierigkeiten geraten. Als ein junger Mann verschwindet, dauert es nicht lange, bis seine Eltern an Bobs Tür klopfen. Was anfangs wie ein simpler Vermißtenfall aussieht, wird tödlicher Ernst, weil es selbst im Land des Lächelns Leute gibt, die vor Mord nicht zurückschrecken. Das Buch "Ewigkeit" von Stephen Leather vermittelt ähnlich tiefe Einblicke in die thailändische Seele wie der Klassiker "Private Dancer" desselben Autors.

Pašování lidí, falešné peníze a plánovaná vražda tvoří každodenní realitu policisty Dana „Spidera“ Shepherda. Obvyklé rutinní vyšetřování se mění v boj o život, když Dan odhalí teroristickou buňku s cílem systematicky ničit a zabíjet. V ohrožení se ocitají stovky cestujících v Eurostaru hluboko pod Lamanšským průlivem. Čas běží, nálož je aktivována a Shepherd se svými kolegy musí učinit rozhodnutí, jak daleko jsou ochotni zajít, aby zachránili nevinné životy a zabránili katastrofě. Zjišťují, že musí být bezohlednější než sami teroristé. Tvůrci thrillerů a akčních románů o terorismu žijí v paradoxním světě. Zatímco tráví čas úvahami o metodách ničení, většina z nich by nikdy neublížila ani muše. Při psaní o teroristech se snaží myslet jako oni, což zahrnuje i dlouhé hodiny procházek po městech a hledání potenciálních cílů. Útoky v Londýně v roce 2005 měly zvláštní význam, protože pět měsíců předtím vyšel román, kde teroristé plánovali výbuch v metru, což se nakonec skutečně stalo. Tato realita se prolíná s fikcí a ukazuje, jak blízko může být literatura k tragickým událostem.

Požiar v srdci: Ed Tully a Connor Ford sú najlepší priatelia, ktorých spája nielen láska k prírode a túžba po dobrodružstve, ale aj spoločné zážitky z práce dobrovoľných hasičov. I to najpevnejšie puto priateľstva však dostáva trhliny, keď sa dvaja muži zamilujú do jednej ženy. V prípade Eda a Connora vstupuje do hry okrem tmavovlasej Julie aj ich nebezpečný koníček.Tango jeden: Tango jeden označuje v policajnom žargóne najhľadanejšieho zločinca - a v tomto prípade je ním drogový barón Den Donovan. V snahe o jeho dolapenie sa londýnska polícia uchyľuje k veľmi neštandartným metódam. Keď sa jedného dňa prestane Donovanovi dariť v osobnom i profesionálnom živote, je len otázkou času, kedy sklapne pasca...V rytme stepu: Manželia Caroline a Tom McSwainovci sú spolu už rovných štyridsaťdva rokov. Od usadlého manželského páru však majú ďaleko, najmä keď väčšinu členov ich domácnosti v približne rovnakom čase zasiahne Amorov šíp lásky. To je potom nevyhnutné zachovať si chladnú hlavu a všetky prípadné katastrofy vyriešiť pekne jednu po druhej.P ako pochybnosti-Svojrázna súkromná vyšetrovateľka Kinsey Millhonová sa púšťa do riskantného prípadu, keď sa rozhodne preskúmať okolnosti záhadného zmiznutia miestneho lekára. Sprenevera, podozrivé obchodné partnerstvá, nenásytné manželky... V svete nezvestného Dr. Purcella je všetko inak, ako by sa zdalo na prvý pohľad. A navyše sa vynoria ďalšie temné tajomstvá.

Další svazek z této řady obsahuje čtyři převážně kriminální romány anglických a amerických autorů ve zkrácené verzi. / Nicholas Evans. Tango jedna / Stephen Leather. Svatba v rytmu stepu / Jeanne Rayová. P jako pochybnosti / Sue Graftonová