by Henry Porter
Jacket images: Mark Owen/Trevillion Images Jacket Design: Andrew Smith
Published by Quercus Books
This is definitely one for your shopping list! Out November 7th 2024
Slim Parsons is all but burned.
Her last deep cover job for MI5 ended with a life-and-death struggle on a private jet that caused her to go on the run from both the deadly target and her angry bosses in the Security Service. They say that violence comes too easily to her; that she’s bordering on delinquent and unsuitable for the roll of an MI5 operative. Yet she is recalled.
The task: Infiltrate a News website that's causing alarm in the highest circles. She accepts the assignment on the condition the Security Services search for her missing brother.
Operation Linesman - things are never going to be simple.
A plot with several threads & characters woven through the story - readers will really feel like they're walking through their experiences together.
Classified documents, trust issues & a new world of problems & uncertainty could all spiral out of control but Slim Parsons has to find a way through.
Being a female agent might have its own challenges but that & past personal issues need to be worked around to keep a level head in this unexpected operation.
Readers may think ahead in a few places but there's always an element of doubt or surpise around the corner - you're really absorbed into the spicy possibilities of dark world espionage. On many levels, these characters need to reappear in our reading futures.
About the Author:
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 Carré. He lives in London.
Huge thanks to Quercus Books for having me on this great tour.
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