Henry Porter Livres

Un bus explose en plein cœur de Londres. C'est un carnage. Constantine Lindow, parce qu'il est d'origine irlandaise et qu'il trouvait sur les lieux du drame, passe rang d'éminent microbiologiste à celui de vulgaire suspect. Quels sont ses liens avec l'IRA ? Qui était réellement son frère, à la vie soi-disant tranquille ? Pourquoi des membres du gouvernement et des services secrets souhaitent-ils trouver au plus vite une solution, aussi grotesque soit-elle ? À mesure que les histoires croisées s'enchevêtrent apparaît une vérité fascinante ; de celles qui aident à comprendre le monde.

Un général, conseiller spécial du président des Etats-Unis, est assassiné à Londres alors qu'il venait confidentiellement rencontrer le Premier ministre britannique. Le même jour, à l'aéroport de Heathrow, les services secrets de Sa Majesté observent le manège très discret mais sophistiqué de plus d'une dizaine d'hommes supposés proches des islamistes les plus radicaux. Une jeune femme du MI6 suit notamment de très près le modeste propriétaire d'une librairie qui disparaît pourtant... Au même moment, à l'autre bout de l'Europe, un clandestin est arrêté puis torturé par la police albanaise. Il serait le bras armé d'une nouvelle action terroriste imminente. Robert Harland, sur la demande du secrétaire général de l'ONU, doit reprendre du service... Un récit digne des meilleurs John Le Carré.

Heart-stopping international spy thriller from 'An espionage master' (Charles Cumming) starring ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson for fans of Mick Herron, Lee Child and John le Carre

Robert Cope Harland ended his career as a British spy in an Austrian hospital, after being tortured and beaten by Czech security agents in the last days of the communist regime. He was young enough then to find a new life with the Red Cross and then with the UN. Twelve years later his UN plane crashes in mysterious circumstances at La Guardia airport, New York and Harland is the only survivor. Was it sabotage, and if so, was Harland the target? It is soon clear to Harland that the answers are to be found in his past, a past which, along with its secrets and tradecraft, he has desperately tried to forget. And now the crash has thrown him back into a world of relentless intrigue and mistrust, to his youth, and a life-changing love affair... 'A taut new thriller about international espionage... Deftly orchestrating a byzantine plot and a multinational cast of characters, Porter creates a chilling global masquerade in which no one is who he (or she) pretends to be' --Vanity Fair

A superb new international thriller from this acclaimed and prize-winning writer: the boy could lead them straight to a terror threat at the heart of Europe. They just have to find him first - before the other side does

One of the most important books of 2009. Henry Porter's new novel paints a chilling portrait of the police-state that the UK is about to become...

The stunning new thriller from 'the proud carrier of the flag first unfurled by John le Carre' (LEE CHILD) 'An espionage master' CHARLES CUMMING 'Timely and terrific' MICK HERRON on Firefly 'Epic ... remarkable ... his best book yet' Sunday Times on Firefly Aid worker Anastasia Christakos is driving through Calabria to visit one of the new refugee centres funded by her husband, billionaire Denis Hisami, when she slows down to greet two African migrants she recognises. Too late she realises it is an ambush. She manages a desperate phone call to Hisami before her Mafia kidnappers drug her. Hours later she wakes up on a container ship, powering eastwards across the Mediterranean. Anastasia has been abducted and held hostage because Hisami has explosive information that his enemies have killed for and will kill for again. But Hisami's time as a commander with the Kurdish Peshmerga has caught up with him, and the US authorities have jailed him for possible past terrorist activities. For all his wealth, he is powerless to save his wife. Only one man can help him. Paul Samson, former MI6 agent and a genius at tracking missing persons. He's the obvious choice. There's only one snag. Samson was, and probably still is, in love with Anastasia. If he manages to locate and save her, will it be for Hisami - or himself?

The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations inthe world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in the Stasi jail, the hundreds of thousands of informers could do nothing to prevent the rebellion that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.It is in the context of these last few paranoid weeks of the Communistworld, when a population that had been oppressed for nearly sixty yearsfound the will to rise up, that this outstanding thriller is set. Its hero is DrRudolf Rosenharte, an academic from Dresden and agent for MI6; hiscontroller is Robert Harland, from A SPY'S LIFE and EMPIRE STATE.When Rosenharte's security is compromised he is faced with a starkchoice: to defect to the West, leaving his beloved family to the mercies ofthe Stasi, or return to East Germany to carry out a dangerous assignmentunder the Stasi's suspicious eye...

An original novel filled with humor, magic, and mystery, offering a classic children's adventure.

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