Book description
The seventh book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series.
Villains across London are being beaten, crippled and killed by
vigilante cops. Crime rates are falling, but the powers that be want Dan
'Spider' Shepherd to bring the wave of rough justice to an end.
Shepherd has always known that there are grey areas in the fight against
crime. And that sometimes justice gets lost in the process.
He has never been comfortable investigating cops, but working for the
Serious Organised Crime Agency means that he has no choice. He has to go
undercover with an elite group of officers who are at the sharp end of
policing, risking their lives daily on the toughest streets in the Capital.
But Shepherd has hard decisions of his own to make when his family is in
the firing line. Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful
thriller writers. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for
more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times
, the Daily Mail
and the South China Morning Post
in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI,
shoveled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump
attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing
full time in 1992. His bestsellers have been translated into more than
ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as
London's Burning, The Knock
and the BBC's Murder in Mind
series and two of his books, The Stretch
and The Bombmaker
, were filmed for TV. You can find out more from his website, www.
stephenleather. com.
