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Violent criminals are walking free across the country, the result of sharp-suited defence lawyers and soft-touch judges. The British justice system is falling part and the public have had enough.
Into that anger step the New Crusaders, a shadowy group that hunts down offenders who have slipped through the net and delivers their own brand of punishment live across social media to millions of cheering followers. To some, they’re heroes. To the government, they’re terrorists.
Dan "Spider" Shepherd of MI5 is brought in to shut them down.But as Shepherd digs deeper, he uncovers a far more dangerous truth: the New Crusaders aren’t driven by justice. They’re being steered by hidden forces with an agenda that has nothing to do with punishment - and everything to do with tearing the country apart.
If Shepherd fails, it won’t just be the rule of law that collapses.
It will be the country itself.
Praise for Stephen Leather:
He has the uncanny knack of producing plots that are all too real. - Daily Mail
Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it. - Sun
The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist. - Daily Express
A master of the thriller genre. - Irish Times
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Stephen Leather
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 eBooks have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. In 2011 alone he sold more than 500,000 eBooks and was voted by The Bookseller magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the UK publishing world. Born in Manchester, he began writing full time in 1992.
Spider Shepherd Thriller
Spider Shepherd Thriller consists of twenty-one books and series is set to expand with the upcoming release of three more books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
