Stephen Leather introduced the character of Jack Nightingale in his book Nightfall. Nightingale is forced to leave his job as an armed police officer and becomes a private detective in London. A few weeks before his thirty-third birthday Nightingale discovers that he was adopted at birth. His real father turns out to be a Satanist who sold Jack’s soul at birth. And on Jack’s thirty-third birthday a demon from hell is coming to collect Jack’s soul.
Nightingale doesn’t believe in Heaven and Hell but as people around him start to die horribly, he realises that there is true evil in the world and he has to fight to regain his immortal soul.
In Midnight Jack discovers that he has a sister and that her soul has also been promised to a demon. It’s up to Jack to save her.
In Nightmare, Jack finds himself revisiting the case that resulted in him leaving the police – the suicide of a young girl. The girl wants Jack to help her, but can he?
Uttered by the abusive father of a nine-year-old girl, that phrase ended Jack’s career as a police negotiator and has been haunting him ever since. Now that he is a struggling private detective, those words return with a vengeance when he inherits a mansion – and some terrifying information. Apparently Jack’s soul was sold at(…)
Somehow, variations of that line keep former police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s life careening in wild, unforeseen directions. And now, as a PI trying to put his life in perspective after his last go-round with the ultimate evil, the chilling phrase returns again. This time it is uttered by a dead woman hanging over a staircase,(…)
The last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then he’s saved his own soul from the devil…but now he’s haunted by Sophie’s cries for help. And when a gangbanger lying in a hospital bed with no brain activity repeatedly drops Jack’s name, Nightingale realizes Sophie(…)
In Jack Nightingale’s world – where reality and the occult collide – sometimes the only way to fight evil is with evil. A farmer walks into a school and shoots eight children dead before turning the gun on himself. It’s a harrowing but straightforward case – until police search the man’s farm and unearth evidence(…)
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(…)
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(…)