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The Enigma Girl (Hardback)

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Hardback 496 Pages
Published: 07/11/2024
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Perfect reading for fans of Mick Herron and Charles Cumming, Porter's pulsating espionage thriller sees a reckless MI5 agent stumble upon a deadly conspiracy when investigating a suspicious news website.

A masterclass in espionage thriller fiction from the heir to John le Carre for fans of Mick Herron, Charles Cumming and David McCloskey. Meet disgraced MI5 agent Slim Parsons, a character who - like Lisbeth Salander - will sear your soul.

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 role of an MI5 operative.

Yet she is recalled and asked to infiltrate a news website that's causing alarm in the highest circles. It is staffed by a group descended from wartime codebreakers operating from an unassuming office block near Bletchley Park. Operation Linesman looks like a come down, the curtain on a brilliant career in the shadows. However, she accepts the assignment on condition that the Security Service searches for her missing brother.

Linesman turns out to be anything but simple. Her personal loss, her previous deep cover role, and a threat to MI5 itself from her original target come together in a three-way collision.

And all the while she is watched by someone even deeper in the shadows than she is.

Publisher: Quercus Publishing
ISBN: 9781529403343
Number of pages: 496
Weight: 722 g
Dimensions: 236 x 154 x 40 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

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

Porter ... knows his way around both the corridors of power and the new media. [He] delivers another in a series of smart, timely reads - Financial Times

Fastmoving, affecting ... touches on contemporary issues, from people trafficking and modern slavery to money's role in corrupting the powerful - Literary Review

Porter draws on his journalistic experience in this riveting, deeply researched novel about the heirs to the Bletchley Park codebreakers, corruption, the role of AI, and state overreach - Saga magazine

Dickensian in the size and diversity of its cast ... yet it never forgets to be an exhilarating thriller - Sunday Times Thriller of the Month

Porter has established himself as one of Britain's finest spy writers, and here his supremely elegant talent is on full display - Daily Mail

This superbly twist laden novel [is]the work of a wholly individual and readable talent ... - Observer

Porter's compelling new espionage novel is the quite the achievement, pulling together a bewildering number of threads - Mail on Sunday

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“Female spy - makes a change”

The main plot took ages to get going. There was a lot of explaining the back story of the Slim, the main protagonist. There were too many plot lines running concurrently and it was obvious they would eventually... More

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“Disappointing”

The Enigma Girl by Henry Porter

Slim is a an undercover agent with a problem.
She is staying with her mother and taking part in an archaeological dig, after surviving a traumatic episode. Her mother is an... More

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“A deep and disturbing story.”

A deep and disturbing story.

"The Enigma Girl" opens with MI5 operative Slim Parsons working on an archaeological dig, having been placed on gardening leave following her previous less-than-successful... More

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