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Last Chance
The stunning new thriller from the legendary SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author
Series: The Spider Shepherd Thrillers
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Spider Shepherd is back, and this time he's taking no prisoners... Professional killers are carrying out hits for the Iranian government across the European continent, targeting the wealthiest and most privileged. After a slew of murders in London, MI5 decides that enough is enough: they are...
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Spider Shepherd is back in the new, gripping thriller from beloved million copy bestseller Stephen Leather.
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Spider Shepherd is back, and this time he's taking no prisoners...
Professional killers are carrying out hits for the Iranian government across the European continent, targeting the wealthiest and most privileged.
After a slew of murders in London, MI5 decides that enough is enough: they are going to have to hit back at the hitmen for hire.
Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, the secret service's most dangerous weapon, is tasked with infiltrating the organisation's ranks and cutting off its head. But just how deep does this hydra go?
A hundred-mile-an-hour whirlwind of a novel from one of the world's most gifted thriller authors.
Series: The Spider Shepherd Thrillers
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Last Chance
Spider Shepherd is back, and this time he's taking no prisoners... Professional killers are carrying out hits for the Iranian government across the European continent, targeting the wealthiest and most privileged. After a slew of murders in London, MI5 decides that enough is enough: they are going to have to hit back at the hitmen for hire. Dan 'Spider' Shepherd,...Paperback$3000Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Black Ops
In what could be his highest-profile mission ever, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is called in to prevent the assassination of a head of state on British soil. 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...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Hot Blood
Dan Spider Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. Now working for the Serious Organised 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...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Clean Kill
'Enthralling' Financial Times 'Explosive' The Sun 'Grabs the reader by the throat' Daily Mail 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...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Tall Order
He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists, codenamed Saladin. He plans and executes devastating attacks and then, ghost-like, he disappears. Ten years ago he blew a plane out of the sky above New York - and now he's killed dozens in a London strike. But one of the latest victims is related to the acting head of MI5,...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Hard Landing
Hard Landing by Stephen Leather follows Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, a man accustomed to risking his life. Working for an elite undercover squad, Shepherd has lied, cheated, and conned to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice. Now, faced with a powerful drugs baron who begins eliminating witnesses to his crimes, Shepherd is assigned his most perilous mission yet. He must...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Fair Game
The eighth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Kidnapping is one of the cruellest crimes - lives are put at risk for cold, hard cash. But when Somali pirates seize the crew of a yacht off the coast of Africa, they bite off more than they can chew. One of the hostages has friends in high places, and...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Soft Target
Set your sights on a bestseller with this hard-hitting action thriller featuring undercover policeman Dan Shepherd. There's only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop... and that's a corrupt cop with a gun. 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...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Light Touch
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 Lisa Wilson stops passing on intelligence...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Rough Justice
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...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Short Range
The explosive new thriller in the Spider Shepherd series Dan Spider Shepherd's career path—soldier, cop, MI5 officer—has always put a strain on his family. So he is far from happy to learn that MI5 is using teenagers as informants. Parents are being kept in the dark, and Shepherd fears that the children are being exploited. As an undercover specialist, Shepherd...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Dark Forces
When you're caught between two evils, only the most decisive will survive. The thirteenth book in action supremo Stephen Leather's Spider Shepherd series is his most pulse-pounding yet... 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...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399749602
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 31 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 499g
Pages: 416
About the Author
Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful ebook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television.
You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial/.Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.Also by Stephen Leather
View all-
Black Ops
In what could be his highest-profile mission ever, Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is called in to prevent the assassination of a head of state on British soil. 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...Paperback$2500Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Hot Blood
Dan Spider Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line. It goes with the turf when you're an undercover cop. Now working for the Serious Organised 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...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Clean Kill
'Enthralling' Financial Times 'Explosive' The Sun 'Grabs the reader by the throat' Daily Mail 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...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Tall Order
He is one of the world's most ruthless terrorists, codenamed Saladin. He plans and executes devastating attacks and then, ghost-like, he disappears. Ten years ago he blew a plane out of the sky above New York - and now he's killed dozens in a London strike. But one of the latest victims is related to the acting head of MI5,...Paperback$2300Elsewhere:$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Hard Landing
Hard Landing by Stephen Leather follows Dan 'Spider' Shepherd, a man accustomed to risking his life. Working for an elite undercover squad, Shepherd has lied, cheated, and conned to bring Britain's most wanted criminals to justice. Now, faced with a powerful drugs baron who begins eliminating witnesses to his crimes, Shepherd is assigned his most perilous mission yet. He must...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Fair Game
The eighth book in the bestselling Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series. Kidnapping is one of the cruellest crimes - lives are put at risk for cold, hard cash. But when Somali pirates seize the crew of a yacht off the coast of Africa, they bite off more than they can chew. One of the hostages has friends in high places, and...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Soft Target
Set your sights on a bestseller with this hard-hitting action thriller featuring undercover policeman Dan Shepherd. There's only one thing more dangerous than a corrupt cop... and that's a corrupt cop with a gun. 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...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Underdogs
Buckle up for Underdogs, an adrenaline-fueled action-thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Spider Shepherd series. Underestimate this underdog at your peril . . . Once a fearless SAS hero, Andy 'Deadman' Bird now battles the harsh streets of London after a catastrophic mission stripped him of his hearing, career, home, and marriage. His only solace is Tyson,...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Rough Justice
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...Paperback$2700Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Light Touch
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 Lisa Wilson stops passing on intelligence...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Short Range
The explosive new thriller in the Spider Shepherd series Dan Spider Shepherd's career path—soldier, cop, MI5 officer—has always put a strain on his family. So he is far from happy to learn that MI5 is using teenagers as informants. Parents are being kept in the dark, and Shepherd fears that the children are being exploited. As an undercover specialist, Shepherd...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Dark Forces
When you're caught between two evils, only the most decisive will survive. The thirteenth book in action supremo Stephen Leather's Spider Shepherd series is his most pulse-pounding yet... 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...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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