Henry Porter was a newspaper columnist for the Observer and former London editor of Vanity Fair. He has written several acclaimed and bestselling thrillers, including Brandenburg, which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, A Spy's Life and Empire State, 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; White Hot Silence and The Old Enemy. Henry Porter is frequently described as the heir to John le Carre. He lives in Paddington, London.
Enjoyable, beautifully written, surprising and engrossing, with a blazing moral energy * Rory Stewart, author of Politics on the Edge * The rarest of political thrillers - well written, fast paced, with an undercover MI5 protagonist who is forced to make very human choices. A smart thriller - it reads like it was drawn from today's headlines * Paul Vidich, author of Beirut Station * Porter is a master of the modern spy thriller. In Slim Parsons he has created a female agent for our times. The action packed storyline is taut with tension. A tour de force! * Jane Thynne, author of Midnight in Vienna *