Remembrance Day: A race-against-time thriller to save a city from destruction

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'An espionage master' Charles Cumming

A terrifying plot to unleash destruction in London. A very unlikely spy. The countdown has begun...

Constantine Lindow is waiting for his brother Eamonn outside a central London tube station when a bus turns into the street and explodes. The next day Con is arrested as the prime suspect for the bombing.

Con is determined to prove his innocence, but the only way he can do that is to find the real bomber. As he digs deeper, he finds himself confronted by his own brother's secret life - and the cold-blooded killers from his past.

The trail leads Con halfway across the world and back to London, where he tracks down a killer with a genius for encryption codes. Only Con can crack the code. Only Con can stop that telephone ringing...

'British espionage fiction is the best in the world, and Porter is part of the reason why' Lee Child

Reviews

Magnificent ... he has learned the oldest lesson: that characterization and narrative are all - The Economist

An espionage novel needs a big, set-piece opening, and this is one of the best I've read for ages ... Porter gives you everything you want - Daily Telegraph

A powerful, propulsive piece of thriller writing - Observer

More than a match for Le Carre - Mirror

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.