Dan “Spider” Shepherd was standing on the flight deck of an RAF Hercules C-130 leaning on the ba..

Dan Shepherd stared at the canvas ceiling above his bed as the dawn light slowly strengthened. His t..

“It isn’t a part-time job it’s a full time unrelenting commitment and to become one of the inn..

The Bosun explained that E & E was so important to the Regiment that every badged soldier and office..

“Sorry boys my hands are tied. The order comes from Special Force HQ and I can’t countermand it...

“So if you can’t find a helicopter anywhere in Sierra Leone for a lift-out you’d better order ..

“We’re professional soldiers” said Shepherd. “We fight for queen and country there’s a hel..

“So the men you will train as my bodyguards will be selected not on the basis of their physical fi..

For eight hours Spider Shepherd had been lying up in a sand dune overlooking the six-lane highway th..

Dan “Spider” Shepherd shifted position slightly trying to ease the pressure from the rocks benea..

Spider Shepherd squatted on his heels outside his tent drinking his first brew of the day from a bat..

On the night that Carla Reid plans on celebrating her wedding anniversary with her husband Kevin and..

April 1861. Jack Lark arrives in Boston as civil war storms across America. A hardened soldier Jack ..

One balmy June evening in 1881 Phoebe Stanbury stands before the guests at her engagement party abou..

When a young girl Jill Harris is murdered the case soon becomes personal for Monika Paniatowski. She..