The Bag Carrier

One City, Two Cultures. One Murder, Two Cops

A dead body in the prayer hall of a mosque isn’t the best start to the day for anyone.

But for Detective Inspector Harold Porter it’s all in a day’s work – he’s a Murder Detective with the Metropolitan Police’s Homicide and Serious Crimes Command.

The problem is that DI Porter has been given a new partner – a young Muslim detective by the name of Mohammed Salim Nasri.

Nasri and Porter are both British and they are both cops, but they look at the world – and the case – from completely different viewpoints.

And when that case includes Islamic terrorists, acid-throwing fundamentalists and knife-wielding fanatics that can only mean problems.

As Porter and Nasri work to solve the murder case, MI5 is watching over their shoulders and one wrong move could mean a major terrorist incident exploding in the capital.

Praise for Stephen Leather’s Dan "Spider" Shepherd series -

Let Spider draw you into his web, you won't regret it. The Sun

The sheer impetus of his storytelling is damned hard to resist. Daily Express

A master of the thriller genre. Irish Times