Spider Shepherd Books In Publication Order
- Hard Landing (2004)
- Soft Target (2005)
- Cold Kill (2006)
- Hot Blood (2007)
- Dead Men (2008)
- Live Fire (2009)
- Rough Justice (2010)
- Fair Game (2011)
- False Friends (2012)
- True Colours (2013)
- White Lies (2014)
- Black Ops (2015)
- Dark Forces (2016)
- Light Touch (2017)
- Tall Order (2018)
- Short Range (2019)
- Slow Burn (2020)
- Fast Track (2021)
Spider Shepherd Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order
- Friendly Fire (2012)
- Dead Drop (2013)
- Hard Targets (2013)
- Kill Zone (2013)
- Natural Selection (2013)
- Warning Order (2013)
- Hostile Territory (2013)
- Rough Diamonds (2013)
- Narrow Escape (2014)
- Personal Protection (2014)
- More Short Fuses (2014)
- The Rope (2015)
- Planning Pack (2015)
- Remote Control (2015)
- The Sandpit (2016)
- Moving Targets (2018)
Spider Shepherd Short Stories/Novellas In Chronological Order
- Hard Targets (2013)
- Natural Selection (2013)
- Narrow Escape (2014)
- Warning Order (2013)
- Hostile Territory (2013)
- Personal Protection (2014)
- The Rope (2015)
- Planning Pack (2015)
- Friendly Fire (2012)
- The Sandpit (2016)
- Dead Drop (2013)
- Kill Zone (2013)
- Rough Diamonds (2013)
- More Short Fuses (2014)
- Remote Control (2015)
- Moving Targets (2018)
Lex Harper Books In Publication Order
- Takedown (2017)
- Plausible Deniability (Short Story) (2019)
- Breakout (2020)
Jack Nightingale Books In Publication Order
- Nightfall (2010)
- Midnight (2011)
- Nightmare (2012)
- Nightshade (2013)
- Lastnight (2014)
- San Francisco Night (2014)
- New York Night (2015)
- Tennessee Night (2018)
Jack Nightingale Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order
- Cursed (2011)
- Still Bleeding (2012)
- Blood Bath (2014)
- My Name Is Lydia (2014)
- Tracks (2014)
- I Know Who Did It (2015)
- Children of the Dark (2016)
- The Creeper (2017)
- The Asylum (2017)
- The Undead (2017)
- The Doll (2017)
- The Mansion (2017)
- Wrong Turn (2017)
- The Cards (2017)
- Possession (2017)
- The House on Gable Street (2018)
- Knock Knock (2018)
- Watery Grave (2018)
- Claws (2018)
Inspector Zhang Books In Publication Order
- Inspector Zhang Gets His Wish (2011)
- Inspector Zhang and the Dead Thai Gangster (2011)
- Inspector Zhang and the Falling Woman (2011)
- Inspector Zhang and the Disappearing Drugs (2011)
- Inspector Zhang And The Perfect Alibi (2012)
- Inspector Zhang Goes To Harrogate (2012)
- Inspector Zhang and the Island of the Dead (2013)
Asian Heat Books In Publication Order
- Banging Bill’s Wife (2012)
- The Alphabet Game (2012)
- The Pregnant Wife (2012)
- The Threesome (2012)
Mike Cramer Books In Publication Order
- The Chinaman (1992)
- The Long Shot (1995)
- The Double Tap (1996)
Standalone Novels In Publication Order
- Pay Off (1987)
- The Fireman (1989)
- Hungry Ghost (1991)
- The Vets (1993)
- The Birthday Girl (1996)
- The Solitary Man (1997)
- The Tunnel Rats (1998)
- The Bombmaker (1999)
- The Stretch (2000)
- Tango One (2002)
- The Eyewitness (2004)
- Private Dancer (2005)
- Dreamer’s Cat (2010)
- Once Bitten (2010)
- The Baseme*nt (2010)
- Bangkok Bob and the Missing Mormon (2011)
- The Bestseller (2011)
- Take Two (2013)
- First Response (2016)
- Penalties (2016)
- The Shout (2018)
- The Bag Carrier (2019)
- The Runner (2020)
- Desperate Measures (2021)
- The Hunting (2021)
- Killing Time (2021)
Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order
- Rogue Warrior (Richard Yokely) (2019)
Short Story Collections In Publication Order
- Short Fuses (2012)
- The Eight Curious Cases of Inspector Zhang (2014)
- Nightingale – A Short Story Collection (2017)
- Nightingale 2 – A Short Story Collection (2018)
Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order
- Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye (2006)
Matt Standing Books In Publication Order
- Last Man Standing (2019)
- Standing Alone (2022)
Anthologies In Publication Order
- Death Toll (2013)
- Death Toll 2 (2013)
Spider Shepherd Book Covers
Spider Shepherd Short Stories/Novellas Book Covers
Spider Shepherd Short Stories/Novellas Book Covers
Lex Harper Book Covers
Jack Nightingale Book Covers
Jack Nightingale Short Stories/Novellas Book Covers
Inspector Zhang Book Covers
Asian Heat Book Covers
Mike Cramer Book Covers
Standalone Novels Book Covers
Short Stories/Novellas Book Covers
Short Story Collections Book Covers
Non-Fiction Book Covers
Matt Standing Book Covers
Anthologies Book Covers
Stephen Leather Books Overview
Hard Landing
Dan Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. Working for an elite undercover squad, he’s lied, cheated, and conned in order to bring Britain s most wanted criminals to justice. But when a powerful drug lord starts to kill off witnesses to his crimes, Shepherd has no choice but to go undercover in a high security prison a world where one wrong move will mean certain death. As Shepherd gambles everything to move in on his quarry, he soon realizes that the man he s hunting is far more dangerous than the police realize and that he s capable of striking outside the prison walls and hitting Shepherd where it hurts most.
Soft Target
When a group of armed police in an elite unit turn maverick and begin ripping off drug dealers at gunpoint, undercover cop Dan Shepherd is given his most dangerous assignment yet. His orders are to infiltrate the tight knit team, gain their confidence, and 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. As Shepherd finds himself on the firing line, he has to decide exactly where his loyalties lie.
Cold Kill
‘While investigating a crew of people traffickers Dan Shepherd discovers a cross Channel currency smuggling operation. Posing as a low level criminal, Shepherd infiltrates the gang, befriending its London soldiers and establishing contact with the Albanian gangster who masterminds the business from his swank Paris flat. As Shepherd soon discovers, currency smuggling isn’t the only business these guys dabble in. With the help of a government contact, they’ve been churning out fake British passports, a scam that eventually finds Shepherd surrounded by Semtex and racing to foil a terrorist plot The story builds to a boil as Shepherd, piecing together the terrorists’ plans as he goes, lands aboard a Paris bound Eurostar train with four suicide bombers as his fellow passengers. It’s a grand finale that’ll have readers on edge. Nicely, and seemingly effortlessly, done.’ Kirkus Reviews Starred Review
Hot Blood
Dan Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the territory when you’re an undercover cop. Now working for Britain’s top anti organized 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 baseme*nt, 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 realize that the hostage has been abandoned by the British government and that, officially, nothing is being done to rescue him. And with the execution only days away, Shepherd knows that the only way to save his friend’s life is to put himself on the firing line in the most dangerous city in the world Baghdad.
Dead Men
Undercover cop Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd knows there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. When a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, Shepherd must put his life on the line to protect his former enemies. While he is undercover in Belfast, a grief stricken Saudi whose two sons died under torture in the name of the War on Terror is planning to avenge their deaths by striking out at two people close to Shepherd. As the assassin closes in on his prey, Shepherd realizes that the only way to save lives is to become a killer himself.
Live Fire
Mickey and Mark Moore are Ordinary Decent Criminals hard men who live by their own code and leaders of a gang that has made millions at the point of a gun. But when Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is sent to infiltrate the tightly knit team of bank robbers, he discovers that he has more in common with them then he first thought. And that perhaps being a career criminal isn’t the worst thing in the world. As Shepherd and his Serious Organised Crime Agency colleagues plot the downfall of the Moore brothers, a more sinister threat stalks the streets of London. A group of home grown Islamic fundamentalist fanatics embark on a campaign of terror the like of which Britain has never seen. Car bombs and beheadings are only the prelude of what they have planned. And Shepherd is the only man who can stop them.
Rough Justice
Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is sent undercover to investigate a group of policemen in the Territorial Support Group. Fed up with all the paperwork and the fact that the system is geared to support the criminals rather than the victims, they have started to act as vigilantes, planting forensic evidence to frame known criminals, and moving on to more drastic methods. Spider is far from happy about deceiving fellow policemen, and things are complicated on other fronts for him too: his friend Jimmy Sharpe is tied up in an undercover investigation that is causing problems, and he’s discovered an extremely disturbing film on his son’s cell phone.
Nightfall
You’re going to hell, Jack Nightingale. These are the words that ended Jack Nightingale’s career as a police negotiator. Now a struggling private detective, the chilling words return with a vengeance when Jack inherits a mansion with a priceless library and a terrifying warning from a man who claims to be his father. Nightingale quickly learns his soul was sold at birth and a devil will come to claim it on his thirty third birthday, which is just three short weeks away. It’s a hard pill to swallow. He doesn’t believe in Hell and probably doesn’t believe in Heaven either. But when people close to him start to die horribly, he is led to the inescapable conclusion that real evil may be at work. And if he doesn’t find a way out, he’ll be damned for eternity. Dripping with brooding intensity, unrelenting suspense, and surprising wit, United Kingdom thriller master Stephen Leather s first book in the Nightingale series is a riveting, heart stopping mystery with extraordinary range and power.
Midnight
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 Chinaman
The Chinaman understands death. Jungle skilled, silent, and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans, and he had watched helplessly when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates. But that was all behind him. Quiet, hardworking, and unassuming, The Chinaman had been building up a take away food business when his wife and youngest daughter were caught by an IRA bomb in a department store. Simply but persistently, The Chinaman asked the authorities about who had set the bomb. After he is turned away by the authorities and treated as a nuisance, he decides there is only one path before him. The Chinaman, denied justice, decides he must take revenge into his own hands, and declares war.
The Long Shot
Cole Howard of the FBI knows he has only days to prevent the audacious assassination but he doesn t know who the target is, or where the marksmen will strike. Former SAS sergeant Mike Cramer is also on the trail, infiltrating the Irish community in New York as he tracks down Mary Hennessy, the ruthless killer who tore his life apart. Unless Cramer and Howard agree to cooperate, the world will witness the most spectacular terrorist coup of all time.
Pay Off
Why does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA? Jeopardise his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with the East End underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple: revenge for a cold blooded act of murder. His adversary is a dangerous gangland boss whose connections stretch from the Highlands to London and beyond. More than a match for a newcomer, especially when his plans contain a fatal flaw which will be discovered only when it is much too late…
Hungry Ghost
In this story an ex SAS man is sent to Hong Kong by MI5 to kill Simon Ng, a Chinese mafia leader and a freelance agent for several governments. When he disappears, Ng’s brother in law Patrick Dugan, a Hong Kong policeman, becomes caught in the middle of international spy intrigue.
The Vets
Hong Kong is going back to the Chinese, but not before one man tries to pull off the most daring robbery of them all. Using the hard bitten skills of four Vietnam veterans, Colonel Joel Tyler is about to rake in the millions, and throw the international community into chaos at one of the most crucial moments of world history.
The Birthday Girl
Mersiha was adopted from war torn Yugoslavia, and has grown up to be an all American teenager. When she discovers that her adoptive father is in financial trouble, she decides to intervene whatever the risks. However, the consequences of her actions are lethal, for Mersiha has unearthed a conspiracy of terrifying proportions.
The Solitary Man
Imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit, Chris Hutchison escapes from a British maximum security prison and starts a new life in Hong Kong. Then a ghost from his past catches up with him, forcing him to help a former terrorist break out of a Bangkok prison or face life behind bars once more.
The Tunnel Rats
Two murders, thousands of miles apart: one in London, one in Bangkok. The bodies are brutally mutilated, an ace of spades impaled in their chests. In Washington, a U.S. senator has received photographs of the corpses and realizes that his past has come back to haunt him. Nick Wright is the detective trying to solve the mystery of the double killing. His hunt for a motive takes him into the jungles of Vietnam, where the American tunnel rats fought the dirtiest battle of the war against the Viet Cong. But his search places him in grave danger, with a killer intent on protecting the secrets of the tunnels at any cost.
The Bombmaker
Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA’s deadliest killers until a misplaced bomb ripped into a group of passing children. Now, years later, she has a whole new life and a family, and her days of violence seem a distant memory. But then her daughter is kidnapped by persons unknown, and she s blackmailed into building a massive explosive device for them target unknown.
The Stretch
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 more messy 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 organization, find the snitch and in theory get Terry off the hook. But after a shaky start, she quickly starts to get her own ideas.
Tango One
In different parts of London, three recruits prepare for their first day at the Metropolitan Police’s training centre at Hendon. All three had succeeded in getting into the police in spite of weaknesses. But on their first day, the assistant commissioner announces that he wants them to join a team of undercover detectives. Their brief? To become criminals; to work their way up through whatever criminal organisations they can get access to, and to collate evidence against the criminals they come across. Their target? One of the world’s biggest drug dealers. Den Donovan, alias ‘Tango One‘ number one on HM Customs and Excise List of most wanted criminals. Three years later all the recruits are getting close to their target. Too close, perhaps, to remember the rules…
The Eyewitness
Jack Solomon is a messenger of death. His task is to identify the victims of ethnic cleansing, then tell families their loved ones are never coming home. Years of working in the shattered remains of Yugoslavia have desensitized Solomon to the horrors of war, but when a truck containing 26 bodies is pulled from a lake, he’s unable to walk away. Solomon s hunt for the last witness will lead him from the brothels of Sarajevo to London s high stakes world of organized crime and internet prostitution. There, he will discover that the killers are closer to home than he ever imagined.
Private Dancer
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!
Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye
‘Two timing bargirls, suspicious spouses, and lesbian lovers’ it was all in a day’s work for Bangkok Private Eye Warren Olson. Fluent in Thai and Khmer, Olson walked the mean streets of Bangkok and was able to go where other Private Eyes feared to tread. The stories are based on Olson’s case files, fictionalized to protect the innocent, and the guilty by bestselling author Stephen Leather.
Related Authors