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The Old Enemy

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15th April 2021

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Digital (deliver electronic) / ISBN-13: 9781529403329

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‘A timeless ripping espionage yarn’

Sunday Times Thriller of the Month

Ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson has been tasked with secretly guarding a gifted young woman, Zoe Freemantle. He is just beginning to tire of the job when he is attacked in the street by a knifeman. It’s clear the target is on his back not hers. What he doesn’t know is who put it there.

At that moment, his mentor, the MI6 legend Robert Harland lies dead on a remote stretch of the Baltic coastline. Who needed to end the old spy’s life when he was, in any case, dying from a terminal illness? And what or who is Berlin Blue, the name scratched in the sketchbook beside his body?

A few hours later, Samson watches footage from the US Congress where billionaire philanthropist Denis Hisami is poisoned with a nerve agent while testifying – an attack that is as spectacular as it is lethal, but spares Anastasia Hisami, the love of Samson’s life.

Two things become clear. One, it was a big mistake to lose the mysterious Zoe Freemantle. And two, Robert Harland is making a final play from beyond the grave.

A heart-stopping international spy thriller starring ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson for fans of Mick Herron, Lee Child and John le Carre.

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Reviews

Financial Times Best Thrillers of 2019 on White Hot Silence
Fast paced, uber-topical thriller... a roller-coaster ride of a story ... Porter deftly mixes well-structured storytelling with complex, engaging characters
Crime Time
Henry Porter is now one of the most accomplished practitioners of the modern thriller
Lee Child
Porter is both his own man and the proud carrier of the flag first unfurled by John le Carre more than fifty years ago. British espionage fiction is the best in the world, and Porter is part of the reason why
Strong Words magazine
Enigmatic, pacy and international
The Times
Porter skilfully tugs the taut threads of his global conspiracy towards a stirring climax
Literary Review
The story is complex and the sense of danger spreading across the world gives it urgency
Sunday Times Thriller of the Month
At once an up-to-the-minute political novel about an emergent second Cold War, a timeless, ripping, espionage yarn and a continuation of the lives of characters who become richer with each appearance. An impressive achievement and, as ever with Porter, told in an addictive blend of tangy dialogue and polished prose
Weekend Sport
Porter has an extra human depth to his stories that gives him the edge over others. Tense and packed with action, intrigue and great characters, you'll be hard pressed to find a better spy novel

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