Empire State

'An espionage master' Charles Cumming

Former spy Robert Harland returns in this nailbiting thriller set in the aftermath of 9/11

The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in spectacular fashion at Heathrow.

An airport employee and his family are found murdered in their council house in Uxbridge.

In New York, a fashionable Upper East Side osteopath receives two postcards showing the Empire State Building.

A group of migrant workers are brutally gunned down in Macedonia.

The quest to find the link between these apparently random events is pursued by Robert Harland - drawn back to a world he thought he'd left behind - with a dual role for the UN and MI6.

“Plausible, scary and exciting ... excellent - Literary ReviewEmpire State is well paced and cleverly constructed ... refreshingly well written - SpectatorA wonderful treat ... Here is a spy writer whose work is becoming increasingly unbeatable - IndependentPorter has fast become one of the masters of the genre - Sunday Telegraph”

Plausible, scary and exciting ... excellent - Literary Review

Empire State is well paced and cleverly constructed ... refreshingly well written - Spectator

A wonderful treat ... Here is a spy writer whose work is becoming increasingly unbeatable - Independent

Porter has fast become one of the masters of the genre - Sunday Telegraph

Henry Porter was a regular columnist for the Observer and now writes about European power and politics for The Hive website in the US. He has written several bestselling thrillers, including Brandenburg, which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, A Spy's Life and Empire State, which were both nominated for the same award. He is also the author of the Paul Samson spy thrillers: Firefly, which won the 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, and White Hot Silence. Henry Porter is frequently described as the heir to John le Carre. He lives in London.

'An espionage master' Charles Cumming Former spy Robert Harland returns in this nailbiting thriller set in the aftermath of 9/11 The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in spectacular fashion at Heathrow.An airport employee and his family are found murdered in their council house in Uxbridge.In New York, a fashionable Upper East Side osteopath receives two postcards showing the Empire State Building.A group of migrant workers are brutally gunned down in Macedonia.The quest to find the link between these apparently random events is pursued by Robert Harland - drawn back to a world he thought he'd left behind - with a dual role for the UN and MI6.

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