The second compelling Robert Harland spy thriller from the award-winning author of BRANDENBURG and FIREFLY
'An espionage master' Charles Cumming
Former spy Robert Harland returns in this nailbiting thriller set in the aftermath of 9/11
The head of the US National Security Agency is assassinated in spectacular fashion 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.
Plausible, scary and exciting ... excellent - Literary Review
Empire State is well paced and cleverly constructed ... refreshingly well written - Spectator
A wonderful treat ... Here is a spy writer whose work is becoming increasingly unbeatable - Independent
Porter has fast become one of the masters of the genre - Sunday Telegraph