Dan “Spider” Shepherd

“Spider” Shepherd is the main character in the book “Hard Landing” by Stephen Leather. Hard Landing is the first in the series headed by ultra detective Dan Shepherd. Stephen Leather is a British author born in 1956 with a background in journalism and has written for the television shows The Knock, London’s Burning, and the miniseries Murder In Mind for the BBC. His first novel, Pay Off, was published by the Harper Collins publishing company in May of 1997.