Firefly: Heartstopping chase thriller & winner of the Wilbur Smith Award

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'A welcome return ... Firefly seems ripped from the headlines and is both timely and terrific' Mick Herron

'The eagerly awaited return of an espionage master' Charles Cumming

From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of Macedonia, a thirteen year old boy is making his way to Germany and safety. Codenamed 'Firefly', he holds vital intelligence: unparalleled insight into a vicious ISIS terror cell, and details of their plans. But the terrorists are hot on his trail, determined he won't live to pass on the information.

When MI6 become aware of Firefly and what he knows, the race is on to find him. Paul Samson, ex-MI6 agent and now private eye, finds himself recruited to the cause. Fluent in Arabic thanks to his Lebanese heritage, Samson's job is to find Firefly, win his trust and get him to safety.

A devastatingly timely thriller following the refugee trail from Syria to Europe, Firefly is a sophisticated, breathtaking race against time from the acclaimed and award-winning author of Brandenburg and The Dying Light.

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With its vivid portrait of the flood of refugees moving west from Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey, the book could not be more timely. Porter's sympathy for the dispossessed is as cogent here as his skill at sustaining narrative tension - Guardian

A tense, intelligent conspiracy thriller set in a horribly plausible future Britain where surveillance is so pervasive that it's impossible to do anything unobserved - Guardian on The Dying Light

Splendid... precocious Syrian 13-year-old Naji is a hero of appeal and intelligence - The Times

A sophisticated, engrossing and important political thriller - Washington Post on The Dying Light

An accomplished retro-thriller . . . warmly recommended. Henry Porter has fast become one of the masters of the genre - Sunday Telegraph on Brandenburg

Porter is proving himself more of a match for Le Carre - The Mirror on Brandenburg

A powerful, propulsive piece of thriller writing - Observer

Magnificent . . . [he has] learned the oldest lesson: that characterisation and narrative are all - Spectator

Author Bio

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.