Stephen Leather - Libros y biografía

The Chinaman understood death. Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed...

The inscrutable Inspector Zhang of the Singapore Police Force is Bangkok-bound on a passenger jet when a passenger is found dead in the first class cabin. But who killed him, and why? It's up to Inspector...

An action-packed short story featuring Dan "Spider" Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper in war-torn Sierra Leone.Rough Diamonds is about 12,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you have half...

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate when an old man appears to have been hit by a train on an abandoned railway line. But there hasn't been a train there in more than fifty...

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale gets called in to deal with a particularly nasty case of possession. But he can't do the exorcism alone - for that he needs the help of a priest. A very special...

A grieving widow believes that her husband has come back from the dead. But does he want to help her or hurt her? Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate.Stephen Leather is...

An action-packed short story featuring Dan "Spider" Shepherd before he joined the SAS. On active service as a paratrooper in war-torn Sarajevo in 1995, he realises that the SAS is where he belongs. This...

Mexico is famous for its rich culture, ancient ruins, dazzling beaches, and spicy cuisine.But there is a darker side to America's southern neighbour, with vicious gangs dealing in drugs. extortion, money...

The assassin: the world's most successful contract killer. An anonymous professional with a unique calling card - one bullet in the head and one in the chest for each and every target.The Judas goat:...

Hong Kong, 1991. The colony is preparing for Chinese rule.Geoff Howells, a government-trained killing machine, is brought out of retirement and sent to there. His brief: to assassinate Chinese Mafia leader,...

Chris Hutchison is a man on the run. Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Hutch escapes from a British maximum security prison and starts a new life in Hong Kong. Then a ghost from his past catches...

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate a young girl who appears to be possessed by an evil spirit.My Name Is Lydia is about 10,000 words, about thirty pages, perfect if you...

Someone - or something - is killing people in the Everglades and eating them. Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale is sent to investigate and discovers that the murders are only a taste of what is...

As a big player in the 90s London underworld, Terry Greene has always made a priority of 'taking care of business' personally. It's always good for the troops to know that the boss ain't too squeamish...

Fortune telling can be a hit and miss business at the best of times, but when a mysterious set of Tarot cards starts to change the future and not predict it, Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate....

Andrea Hayes was one of the IRA's most deadly killers. But when a misplaced bomb ripped apart a group of passing kids, she left all that behind her.Now, years later, she lives a quiet, suburban life with...

The plan is so complex, the target so well protected that the three snipers have to rehearse the killing in the seclusion of the Arizona desert.Cole Howard of the FBI knows he has only days to prevent...

Supernatural detective Jack Nightingale has always dealt with unusual - and dangerous - cases. So when a serial killer starts killing victims using Witchfinder methods of execution, Nightingale is asked...

Hong Kong. The British administration is preparing to hand the capitalist colony back to Communist China with the minimum of fuss.Colonel Joel Tyler, however, has other plans for the British colony -...

The last thing Jeremy expected when he moved to Thailand was to fall in love with a ladyboy. But that's what happened. And all went well until he decided that the one thing he needed to create the perfect...

Two murders, thousands of miles apart: one in London, one in Bangkok. The bodies brutally mutilated: an ace of spades impaled upon their chests.In Washington, a US senator receives photographs of the...

Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she's his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl, and it seems like her past is another country.But...

A short story featuring SAS trooper Dan "Spider" Shepherd in action in Afghanistan, helping a 12-year-old boy get revenge for the death of his father.Shepherd went on to become an undercover cop in London...

'Je ne sais pas si ça a été le coup de foudre, mais ça n'en était pas loin. Elle avait les plus longs cheveux que j'aie jamais vu, d'un noir de geai, ils descendaient presque jusqu'à sa taille. Elle avait...

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...

Would you kill to write a bestseller? Well Adrian Slater says that he's prepared to do just that – and announces the fact in a creative writing class.Lecturer Dudley Grose is convinced that Slater is...

An action-packed short story featuring Dan "Spider" Shepherd during his days as an SAS trooper in Afghanistan. It's November 2001 and Shepherd is sent on a dangerous mission to a Taliban stronghold on...

Jack Nightingale was always happier dealing with criminal cases or even divorce than he was with matters of the supernatural. So when a client came with a simple request to uncover the meaning behind...

Haunted houses go with the turf for supernatural detective Jack Nightingale.Not that the house on Gable Street had a problem with ghosts.It was built as a forever home by rock star Jimmy Deadman and his...

A mysterious woman has been prowling around a derelict mental asylum hacking victims to death with an axe. A TV crew goes in to investigate and supernatural detective Jack Nightingale goes in with them....