Catalog Search Results
1) Short range
Author
Series
Dan Shepherd thrillers volume 16
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The explosive new thriller in the Spider Shepherd series.
4) Cold kill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Dan 'Spider' Shepherd returns in the third stunning action thriller from bestselling author Stephen Leather.
5) Hard landing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Detective Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. But when a powerful drugs baron starts to kill off witnesses to his crimes, he is given his most dangerous assignment yet.
6) Live fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"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 Dan 'Spider' Shepherd returns, the only man who can stop them."--Provided by publisher.
7) Soft target
Author
Series
Pub. Date
©2005.
Language
English
Description
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. 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.
8) Dirty war
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"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...
9) Black ops
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As an MI5 agent, Spider is used to going undercover, but when he's asked to assume the identity of the contract killer hired to take out President Vladimir Putin, he knows he'll become a wanted man. And things are about to get more complicated: Spider is told that his MI5 controller and close friend Charlotte Button has been running an off-the-books assassination operation, taking vengeance on the men who killed her husband. Spider owes his life to...
10) Fast Track
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Who can you trust if you can't trust the people tasked with protecting the nation? Murderous jihadists have been crossing the English Channel, passing themselves off as asylum seekers. MI5 have been keeping them under surveillance, but what starts as a simple terrorist takedown goes badly wrong and dozens of innocent civilians are killed in the heart of London. And the screw is tightened when a bomb takes out senior members of the Secret Intelligence...
11) Rough justice
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
You want to play the big boys' games, you have to fight by big boys' rules ... 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 up 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...
12) Slow burn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
There are thousands of jihadi brides in refugee camps in the Middle East. Some of them were once British before they were stripped of their citizenship. Were they brainwashed or simply naive when they set out for Syria as teenagers? And, if they were allowed to return, would they pose a threat to our country? Spider Shepherd is about to be sent on an extraordinary mission to the Syrian border by his MI5 boss. There he will have to decide which of...
14) Clean kill
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bloodthirsty terrorists have shot down a British helicopter in West Africa and taken the crew hostage. Their lives hang in the balance and the British government is refusing to negotiate. The pilot is Liam Shepherd, whose father Dan "Spider" Shepherd of MI5 is the only man that can help. Shepherd and an SAS team are immediately dispatched to Mali to rescue the kidnapped Brits. At the same time, a high security prison in the UK is moments away from...
15) Light touch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice. But what do you do when you believe an undercover cop has crossed the line and aligned herself with the international drugs smuggler she was supposed to be targeting? When a deep-undercover cop stops passing on intelligence about her target, MI5 sends in Dan 'Spider' Shepherd to check that she is on the straight and narrow....
16) The runner
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sally Page is an MI5 'footie', a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities or footprints used by real spies. Her day consists of maintaining flats and houses were the legends allegedly live, doing online shopping, using payment, loyalty and travel cards and going on social media in their names - anything to give the impression to hostile surveillance that the legends are living, breathing individuals. One day she goes out...
17) Dark forces
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request