Dan "Spider" Shepherd is the hero of the Sunday Times bestselling series written by Stephen Leather. Before he was an undercover cop and MI5 officer, Spider was a soldier and a member of the elite SAS seeing action in warzones around the world. This second collection of short stories, published in paperback for the first time, cover Shepherd's time in the Middle East and Afghanistan with the SAS and detail how he narrowly escaped with his life in a deadly ambush. The stories also introduce Lex Harper who appears in the Spider Shepherd novels. The short stories are - Personal Protection, The Rope, Planning Pack, Friendly Fire, Dead Drop, and Kill Zone."