Spider Shepherd

Detective Dan Shepherd does what he has to do to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice. In his latest case against a powerful drugs baron he has to go undercover in a maximum security prison. Dangerous as this is he soon realises that the man he must trap is even more dangerous than the police had anticipated.

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. And as Shepherd finds himself in the firing line, he has to decide exactly where his loyalties lie.

A run-of-the-mill investigation quickly turns into a matter of life and death when undercover cop Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, uncovers a terrorist cell on a mission of death and destruction. Shepherd and his colleagues realise that to avoid catastrophe, they have to be even more merciless than the terrorists.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. But when the man who once saved his life is kidnapped in the badlands of Iraq, Shepherd knows that the only way to stop his friend being murdered is to put himself on the firing line in the most dangerous city in the world: Baghdad.

Former SAS trooper turned undercover cop, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, knows that there are no easy solutions in the war against terrorism. But when a killer starts to target pardoned IRA terrorists, Shepherd realises that the only way to save lives is to become a killer himself.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd and the Serious Organised Crime Agency are facing a sinister threat on the streets of London when a group of home-grown Islamic 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.

Villains across London are being beaten 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. He goes undercover with an elite group of officers risking their lives daily, but he has hard decisions to make when his family is in the firing line...

Somali pirates have kidnapped the crew of a yacht in a brutal attack, and are demanding a huge ransom. The pirates have chilling terrorist ambitions in the UK, and are making terrible plans to change the London skyline forever. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is sent to sea on an undercover mission to stop the pirates. But time is running out.

When Navy Seals track down and kill Osama Bin Laden, it's obvious there was a traitor on the inside. After the false friends are revealed to be two British students, former Islamic fundamentalists recruited by MI5 - they become targets themselves. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd must teach the pair how to survive undercover with al-Qaeda closing in. But with a terrorist plot looming, putting thousands of lives at stake, can he protect everyone before it's too late?

The Russian oligarchs are the world's new elite. They treat the world as their plaything, travelling without borders and living lives of unimaginable luxury without fear or restraint.

But when an assassin starts killing off some of the world's richest men, an oligarch with friends in high places seeks the protection of MI5. And Spider Shepherd is placed in the firing line.

But while Shepherd has to save the life of a man he neither likes nor respects, he has to deal with a face from his past. The Taliban sniper who put a bullet in his shoulder, who has turned up alive and well and living in London.

But Shepherd is in no mood to forgive and forget...

Book 10 in the Spider Shepherd series.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line - for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn't hesitate to join a rescue mission.

But when the plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors beat and torture him.

Shepherd's MI5 controller, Charlotte Button, is determined to get her man out of harm's way, but to do that she's going to have to break all the rules. Her only hope is to bring in America's finest - the elite SEALs who carried out Operation Neptune Spear - in a do-or-die operation to rescue the captives.

Book 11 in the Spider Shepherd series.

As an MI5 agent, Spider Shepherd 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 then Spider discovers that his 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 Button - but this discovery will stretch his loyalty to the limit...

A violent South London gang will be destroyed if Dan "Spider" Shepherd can gather enough evidence against them. What he doesn't know is that his work as an undercover agent for MI5 is about to intersect with a massive terrorist operation. Spider's going to have to proceed with extreme caution if he is to prevent the death of hundreds of people. The clock is ticking and only he stands between us and Armageddon...

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. As Spider finds his loyalties being tested to the limit, an SAS killer is on a revenge mission in London and only Spider can stop him.

He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists, codenamed Saladin. Ten years ago he blew a plane out of the sky above New York - and now he's struck again, killing dozens in a London strike. But one of the latest victims is related to the acting head of MI5, who knows exactly who she wants on the case: Spider Shepherd. Dean Martin, a psychologically damaged former Navy SEAL, is the only person in the world who can identify Saladin. But Martin was killed ten years ago - wasn't he? Shepherd must find Martin and take him back to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Revenge on Saladin is long overdue, and Shepherd is determined to be the one to deliver it...

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 the jihadi brides in refugee camps are still a threat, and if not, which of them has information useful to the Secret Service and can be allowed back..

But there is one bride he must take back to the UK whatever her circumstances. She is the wife of a notorious ISIS bombmaker, Salam Jaraf. Jaraf is an asylum seeker who has information on terrorist cells in Britain. But the bombmaker will only tell MI5 what he knows if his wife and son are brought to him. However, it soon becomes obvious that hostile forces are following Spider and Mrs Jaraf across Turkey…

Book 17 in the Spider Shepherd series.

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 Service.

Someone within the security services has been working to their own agenda, and only Dan 'Spider' Shepherd can identify the bad apple. His search for the rogue agent takes him to Turkey and then to Dubai, where his masters order him to carry out a breathtaking act of revenge.

Book 18 in the Spider Shepherd series.

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 clock is ticking...

Terrorists have shot down a British helicopter in West Africa and taken the crew hostage. Their lives are on the line and the British government is refusing to negotiate. The pilot is Liam Shepherd, and only his father - Dan 'Spider' Shepherd of MI5 - can help.

Shepherd and an SAS team fly out to the badlands of Mali to rescue the kidnapped Brits.

But the mission takes Shepherd away from an investigation in a high security prison that is about to explode into violence. Hundreds of lives are at risk, and Shepherd is running out of time...

Book 20 in the Spider Shepherd series.

A group of professional killers, known as The Office, are carrying out hits for the Iranian government across the European continent, hitting targets amongst the wealthiest and most privileged.

After a slew of murders in London, MI5 decide that enough is enough. The Office must be destroyed, root and stem.

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, the secret service's most dangerous weapon, is tasked with infiltrating the organisation and unmasking its leader.

But just how far is he willing to go in the name of justice...?

Book 22 in the Spider Shepherd series.