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A Dying Light by Henry Porter
Category: Crime and Thrillers
At his funeral the bells of the church were rung open rather than half-muffled, as is usual for the dead. Kate Lockhart has come with corporate leaders, ministers and intelligence chiefs to a beautiful town in the Welsh Marches to mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the brightest government servant of his ...Show more
A Spy's Life by Henry Porter
Category: Fiction
Moments after a mysterious air crash at La Guardia Airport, a cell phone rings out from the wreckage in the East River. Stunned and half dead from cold and drowning, the lone survivor, Robert Harland, wades to the remains of an airline seat where his old friend from the CIA lies dead. He snatches the ph ...Show more
A Spy's Life by Henry Porter
Category: Fiction
'Compulsively readable' Observer An ex British spy finds himself dragged back into the world of espionage after a mysterious plane crash... Robert 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 communi ...Show more
A Spy's Life by Henry Porter
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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 i ...Show more
A Spy's Life by Henry Porter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Robert Harland Ser.
'Compulsively readable' Observer An ex British spy finds himself dragged back into the world of espionage after a mysterious plane crash... Robert 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 ...Show more
Brandenberg by Henry Porter
Category: Fiction
The Cold War didn't end with the fall of the Berlin Wall...The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the 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 ...Show more
Brandenburg by Henry Porter
Category: Crime and Thrillers
The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the 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 noth ...Show more
Brandenburg by Henry Porter
Category: Fiction
November, 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall. One man's passage from the dark of the East to the light of the WestThe Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squad ...Show more
Brandenburg by Henry Porter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Robert Harland Ser.
'A fascinating switchback roller-coaster of a plot' Guardian November 1989. The fall of the Berlin Wall. One man is caught between East and West... The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations in the world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was coll ...Show more
Empire State by Henry Porter
Category: Fiction
This powerful new thriller sees the return of Robert Harland, hero of Porter's previous, highly acclaimed novel A Spy's LifeThe head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in a spectactular set piece killing at Heathrow. A Pakistani employee at the airport and his family are found murdered i ...Show more
Empire State by Henry Porter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Robert Harland
'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 ...Show more