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Stel dat je waar dan ook ter wereld een bom kon laten ontploffen, simpelweg door een telefoontje te plegen... Dat is het uitgangspunt van deze spannende en intrigerende thriller waarmee de Engelse journalist Henry Porter zo overtuigend zijn misdaaddebuut maakt. Constantine Lidow, Ier van geboorte, staat bij de uitgang van een Londens metrostation te wachten op zijn broer Eamonn met wij hij een eetafspraak heeft. Dan komt de bus met daarin Eamonn de straat in rijden - en ontploft. De volgende dag, wanneer Con in het ziekenhuis wakker wordt, staan er twee politiemensen aan zijn bed en blijkt dan Con zélf wordt verdacht van de aanslag. Gevangen tussen de Britse geheime dienst en Scotland Yard - twee overheidsinstanties die elkaar niet vertrouwen maar wel beide overtuigd zijn van zijn betrokkenheid - moet Con zijn onschuld bewijzen. Het spoor leidt hem via Boston en de bossen in het noorden van de Verenigde Staten uiteindelijk terug naar Londen, naar een onvoorstelbaar slimme en gewetenloze moordernaar.

For Irish-born Con Lindow, it's a classic case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. While standing outside a London tube station, he watches a bus pull up -- and explode into flames. When John wakes in the hospital, he finds himself affested as chief suspect. To prove his innocence, staying one step ahead of both Scotland Yard and the British Security Service, Con must find the real culprit, an ingenious maniac who blames the IRA for the bombs he sets off with nothing more than a cell phone. Catapulting readers from London to Ireland to Boston and back again, Remebrance Day is an utterly gripping roller-coaster ride that careens toward a brilliantly shocking and unforgettable culmination.

Heart-stopping international spy thriller from 'An espionage master' (Charles Cumming) starring ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson for fans of Mick Herron, Lee Child and John le Carre

Robert Cope Harland ended his career as a British spy in an Austrian hospital, after being tortured and beaten by Czech security agents in the last days of the communist regime. He was young enough then to find a new life with the Red Cross and then with the UN. Twelve years later his UN plane crashes in mysterious circumstances at La Guardia airport, New York and Harland is the only survivor. Was it sabotage, and if so, was Harland the target? It is soon clear to Harland that the answers are to be found in his past, a past which, along with its secrets and tradecraft, he has desperately tried to forget. And now the crash has thrown him back into a world of relentless intrigue and mistrust, to his youth, and a life-changing love affair . . .

A superb new international thriller from this acclaimed and prize-winning writer: the boy could lead them straight to a terror threat at the heart of Europe. They just have to find him first - before the other side does

One of the most important books of 2009. Henry Porter's new novel paints a chilling portrait of the police-state that the UK is about to become...

The stunning new thriller from 'the proud carrier of the flag first unfurled by John le Carre' (LEE CHILD)

The Stasi was among the most sophisticated intelligence organisations inthe world, but by the end of the 1980s the Orwellian state of East Germany was collapsing around it. The special squads of armed officers, the torture chambers in the Stasi jail, the hundreds of thousands of informers could do nothing to prevent the rebellion that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall.It is in the context of these last few paranoid weeks of the Communistworld, when a population that had been oppressed for nearly sixty yearsfound the will to rise up, that this outstanding thriller is set. Its hero is DrRudolf Rosenharte, an academic from Dresden and agent for MI6; hiscontroller is Robert Harland, from A SPY'S LIFE and EMPIRE STATE.When Rosenharte's security is compromised he is faced with a starkchoice: to defect to the West, leaving his beloved family to the mercies ofthe Stasi, or return to East Germany to carry out a dangerous assignmentunder the Stasi's suspicious eye...

The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in a spectacular set piece killing at Heathrow ...An airport employee and his family are found murdered in their council house in Uxbridge ...In New York, a fashionable Upper East Side osteopath receives two postcards showing the Empire State Building ...A group of migrant workers are brutally gunned down in Macedonia ... The quest to find the link between these apparently random events is pursued by Robert Harland - drawn back to a world he thought he'd left behind with a dual role for the UN and MI6.

An original novel filled with humor, magic, and mystery, offering a classic children's adventure.