Broken Promises
An unputdownable Spider Shepherd thriller from the multi-million copy bestseller
Will be published approx. on 8. April 2027
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-3997-4964-0 (ISBN)
Description
On a humid night in London's Chinatown, masked gunmen open fire. Within hours, a slick online manifesto claims responsibility in the name of Taiwanese independence. Beijing's fury pushes Britain toward the edge of a geopolitical crisis.
MI5 Director Giles Pritchard is framed with a flawless deepfake video linking him to the attackers. Suspended and disgraced, he has only one ally who believes the evidence is too perfect.
Dan "Spider" Shepherd starts digging and finds the trail leads not to extremists, but to Matthew Langford, a billionaire tech visionary who underpins Britain's digital economy.
As Chinese warships tighten their grip around Taiwan, Shepherd realises Britain's hesitation isn't accidental - it's engineered. And someone wants him dead before he can prove it.
In a world where wars begin with data and perception is power, Shepherd must expose the truth - before a nation sleepwalks into surrender.
MI5 Director Giles Pritchard is framed with a flawless deepfake video linking him to the attackers. Suspended and disgraced, he has only one ally who believes the evidence is too perfect.
Dan "Spider" Shepherd starts digging and finds the trail leads not to extremists, but to Matthew Langford, a billionaire tech visionary who underpins Britain's digital economy.
As Chinese warships tighten their grip around Taiwan, Shepherd realises Britain's hesitation isn't accidental - it's engineered. And someone wants him dead before he can prove it.
In a world where wars begin with data and perception is power, Shepherd must expose the truth - before a nation sleepwalks into surrender.
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English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
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Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-3997-4964-0 (9781399749640)
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Stephen Leather
Broken Promises
An unputdownable Spider Shepherd thriller from the multi-million copy bestseller
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approx. 04/2027
Hodder & Stoughton
€10.99
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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.