Last Chance - The stunning new thriller from legendary SUNDAY TIMES bestselling

SPIDER SHEPHERD IS BACK, AND THIS TIME HE''S TAKING NO PRISONERS... ''Two things to make a Summer afternoon great: a Stephen Leather novel, and a cold beer'' ''Spider keeps getting better and better'' ''The best series I have ever read'' Professional killers 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: 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.

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. Leather has sold nearly 6 million books with Hodder & Stoughton.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Leather, Leather Stephen
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 15.01.2026
• EAN: 9781399749619
• ISBN: 978-1-399-74961-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: The Spider Shepherd Thrillers
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Thrillers / Espionage, Espionage & spy thriller, Technothriller, FICTION / Thrillers / Political, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION / Thrillers / Technological, FICTION / Thrillers / Terrorism, ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Firearms & Weapons, Thriller / suspense, Espionage and spy thriller, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Criminal law: terrorism law, SPORTS & RECREATION / Martial Arts / General, Small firearms, guns and other equipment, Thriller: terrorism, Adventure / action fiction, Martial arts fiction