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Stephen Leather


Nightfall

Jack Nightingale: Book 1

Stephen Leather

"You're going to hell, Jack Nightingale."

These are the words that ended Jack Nightingale's career as a police negotiator. Now a struggling private detective, the chilling words return with a vengeance when Jack inherits a mansion with a priceless library--and a terrifying warning from a man who claims to be his father.

Nightingale quickly learns his soul was sold at birth and a devil will come to claim it on his thirty-third birthday, which is just three short weeks away. It's a hard pill to swallow. He doesn't believe in Hell and probably doesn't believe in Heaven either. But when people close to him start to die horribly, he is led to the inescapable conclusion that real evil may be at work. And if he doesn't find a way out, he'll be damned for eternity.

Midnight

Jack Nightingale: Book 2

Stephen Leather

"Your sister is going to hell, Jack Nightingale."

Somehow, variations of that line keep former police negotiator Nightingale's life careening in wild, unforeseen directions. This time, it is uttered by a dead woman hanging over a staircase, her neck broken by the laundry cord she tied around it before tossing herself over the banister. But Jack and his sister have been separated since birth... How can he save someone he's never met?

Nightingale goes on the hunt for the sister he never knew, but everyone he talks to about her dies horribly. It's as if someone--or something--is determined to keep them apart. If he's going to save her, he's going to have to do what he does best: negotiate. But any negotiation with the forces of darkness comes at a terrible price, and first Jack must ask himself a question: is every soul worth saving?

Nightmare

Jack Nightingale: Book 3

Stephen Leather

The last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale's career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then he's saved his own soul from the devil... but now he's haunted by Sophie's cries for help. And when a gangbanger lying in a hospital bed with no brain activity repeatedly drops Jack's name, Nightingale realizes Sophie may desperately need him. But why?

Police superintendent Ronald Chalmers is determined to pin the gangbanger's almost-murder on Jack, but he is preoccupied with Sophie and whether or not she's in eternal torment--or if demons are torturing and deceiving him in order to gain the ultimate prize. With time running out, he'll have to face down Chalmers and the police, south London gangs, and Hell itself in order to find the answer...

Nightshade

Jack Nightingale: Book 4

Stephen Leather

In Jack Nightingale's world - where reality and the occult collide - sometimes the only way to fight evil is with evil. A farmer walks into a school and shoots eight children dead before turning the gun on himself. It's a harrowing but straightforward case - until police search the man's farm and unearth evidence of dark Satanic practices. When the perpetrator's brother approaches Nightingale, adamant that his brother was set up, it's clear that something even more sinister lurks at the heart of the case.

And there are dark forces elsewhere. A young girl miraculously returns to life, claiming she's spoken to those from beyond the grave. Those in contact with her are dying hideous deaths... forcing Jack Nightingale to make the hardest decision he's ever faced.

Lastnight

Jack Nightingale: Book 5

Stephen Leather

A killer is murdering Goths with relish - skinning and butchering them. The cops aren't getting anywhere so Jack Nightingale's nemesis, Superintendent Chalmers, asks him for help.

Nightingale discovers that the murdered Goths had one thing in common: a tattoo connected to the secretive Satanic child-sacrificing cult called the Order Of Nine Angles.

As Nightingale closes in on the killers, the tables are turned and he finds himself in the firing line, along with his friends and family. The Order will stop at nothing to protect their secrets and Nightingale realises that there is nothing he can do to protect himself. Nor can he run, for the Order has connections across the world. It leaves him with only one way to stop the carnage - and that's to take his own life...

San Francisco Night

Jack Nightingale: Book 6

Stephen Leather

Jack Nightingale fights his battles in the shadows -- in the grey areas where the real world meets the supernatural. But when he arrives in San Francisco to take on a group of Satanists bent on opening a doorway to Hell, the danger is out in the open and all too real.

The Apostles -- a Satanic coven using murder and torture to pave the way for a demon to enter the real world -- realise that Nightingale is on their tail. And unleash their own brand of monsters to take him down.

With Nightingale's life -- and his very soul -- on the line, he has only days to stop The Apostles from bringing death and destruction to the entire world.

New York Night

Jack Nightingale: Book 7

Stephen Leather

WOULD YOU GIVE UP YOUR SOUL TO SAVE A CITY? JACK NIGHTINGALE WOULD.

Teenagers are being possessed and turning into sadistic murderers. Priests can't help, nor can psychiatrists.

So who is behind the demonic possessions? Jack Nightingale is called in to investigate, and finds his own soul is on the line.

Tennessee Night

Jack Nightingale: Book 8

Stephen Leather

Children are killing themselves across the State of Tennessee. Is it a horrible coincidence, or are dark forces at work?

When Jack Nightingale learns that there is a mysterious list of children who are at risk, he takes the case, spurred on by the fact that he knows one of the names and that makes it personal.

His investigation brings him up against a demon from Hell who is being used on a mission of revenge. But if Nightingale is to save the children, and his own soul, he'll need help from an old adversary.

New Orleans Night

Jack Nightingale: Book 9

Stephen Leather

New Orleans. They call it the Big Easy, but there's nothing easy about Jack Nightingale's latest case.

Dead usually means dead, but corpses are coming back to life and carrying out targeted killings.

The supernatural detective is called in to investigate, and he soon discovers that Voodoo is behind the spate of murders.

Whoever is making the dead rise obviously has a plan - a plan so heinous that even the Devils of Hell are concerned.

But there are darker forces at work. And they have Nightingale in their sights. His life - and his soul - are on the line.

Las Vegas Night

Jack Nightingale: Book 10

Stephen Leather

Las Vegas is known as Sin City. And what happens in Vegas usually stays in Vegas.

But someone in the city has powers that allow them to strike anywhere in the world and take lives - for a price.

Jack Nightingale has a track record of dealing with occult killers and so far he has always come out on top.

But this time the only way to find the killer is to set himself up as bait. And this might be the time when his luck finally runs out.

Rio Grande Night

Jack Nightingale: Book 11

Stephen Leather

Mexico is famous for its rich culture, ancient ruins, dazzling beaches, and spicy cuisine.

But there is a darker side to America's southern neighbour, with vicious gangs dealing in drugs. extortion, money laundering, human trafficking and contract killings.

Jack Nightingale came across his fair share of villains when he worked for the Metropolitan Police in London.

But nothing could prepare him for the evil that was waiting for him when he crossed the Rio Grande river and entered Mexico - an evil that is hunting for an immortal soul. A very special soul.

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