Broken Promises - Stephen Leather

Broken Promises is the 23rd Spider Shepherd book and I had great fun writing it. London is under siege - not by criminals, but by a new breed of vigilantes. Cops, crooks, and businessmen alike are taking the law into their own hands, punishing those they feel have escaped justice.

Streaming their crimes online while wearing latex masks of famous politicians and historical figures, they gain millions of viewers, and an unstoppable sense of power. When judges and lawyers become their targets, the country teeters on the edge of chaos.

The police are powerless. There's only one man who can stop the group, who are calling themselves the New Crusaders, and that is Dan "Spider" Shepherd. And Jimmy 'Razor' Sharpe, of course. Razor plays a major role in the book. It wasn't that long ago that Hodder and Stoughton managing director Carolyn Mays was determined to kill off Razor as a character, but luckily for him she was let go and Razor lives to fight another day.

STEPHEN LEATHER WRITES

Broken Promises is the 23rd Spider Shepherd book and I had great fun writing it.