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(…)

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.(…)

Terrorist organisations are busily recruiting men and women who are able to move easily between Western countries without drawing any attention to themselves. And these new recruits are, of course, being handed lethal assignments that it’s up to people like Dan to stop. Going undercover, he makes contact with a major Albanian criminal in France,(…)

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,(…)

Former SAS trooper turned undercover cop Dan Spider Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. But when a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, Shepherd has to put his life on the line to protect his former enemies. While he is undercover in Belfast, a grief-stricken Saudi whose two(…)

Mickey and Mark Moore are hard men who live by their own code and leaders of a gang that has made millions at the point of a gun. Now they’re enjoying a life in the sun in Thailand. Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is sent to infiltrate the tightly-knit team of bank robbers. But when he does,(…)

SAS trooper Dan “Spider” Shepherd in action in Afghanistan, on the trail of a murderous Taliban assassin. Shepherd went on to become an undercover cop in London in the series written by bestselling author Stephen Leather. Kill Zone is just under 15,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half an hour to spare.

Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she is his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl, and the past is another country. Or so it seems. But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she discovers that Freeman’s company is subject to a sinister takeover bid,(…)

All over London, criminals are being viciously attacked and left bleeding or crippled by vigilante cops. For some, this is no great tragedy — after all, crime rates appear to be on the decrease. But it is inevitable that the situation must change, and Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd, working for the Serious Organised Crime Agency, is(…)

Dan “Spider” Shepherd is working for MI5, investigating Somali pirates with links to terrorism in Britain. Meanwhile, the crew of a yacht – including the prime minister’s goddaughter – has been kidnapped by the pirates and are being held hostage in Somalia. A covert operation run by MI5 hopes to kill two birds with one(…)

When Osama Bin Laden is tracked down and killed by the Navy Seal operation in a highly protected compound in Pakistan, it’s obvious there was a leak from within. After the source is revealed to be students Malik and Chaudhry – ex-Islamic fundamentalists recruited by MI5 to disguise themselves as British terrorists – they are(…)

Nothing spreads like fear . . . When a set of Russian oligarchs are assassinated in London, the Russian expat community become anxious. One man appeals to the British government for protection and MI5 assigns Spider Shepherd to the case. But he soon discovers that the killings aren’t political – they’re personal, and the assassin(…)