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Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781787470491

Price: £14.99

ON SALE: 19th June 2018

Genre: Fiction & Related Items / Thriller / Suspense / Espionage & Spy Thriller

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The boy could help them bring down a deadly ISIS terror cell. They just have to find him before the other side does.

‘A welcome return … Firefly is both timely and terrific’ Mick Herron

‘An espionage master’ Charles Cumming

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


From the refugee camps of Greece to the mountains of Macedonia, a thirteen year old boy is making his way to Germany and safety. Codenamed ‘Firefly’, he holds vital intelligence: unparalleled insight into a vicious ISIS terror cell, and details of their plans. But the terrorists are hot on his trail, determined he won’t live to pass on the information.

When MI6 become aware of Firefly and what he knows, the race is on to find him. Paul Samson, ex-MI6 agent and now private eye, finds himself recruited to the cause. Fluent in Arabic thanks to his Lebanese heritage, Samson’s job is to find Firefly, win his trust and get him to safety.

A devastatingly timely thriller following the refugee trail from Syria to Europe, Firefly is a sophisticated, breathtaking race against time from the acclaimed and award-winning author of Brandenburg and The Dying Light.

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Firefly proves once again that Porter is both his own man and the proud carrier of the flag first unfurled by John le Carre more than fifty years ago. British espionage fiction is the best in the world, and Porter is part of the reason why
Lee Child
The boy's desperate journey and the people he meets along the way, coupled with Sampson's hunt for him using every play in the modern spy's training manual, make for a totally enthralling story told with pace and compassion
Shots Mag
Porter is a wizard with words ... a very good thriller
Literary Review
With its vivid portrait of the flood of refugees moving west from Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey, the book could not be more timely. Porter's sympathy for the dispossessed is as cogent here as his skill at sustaining narrative tension
Guardian
Splendid... precocious Syrian 13-year-old Naji is a hero of appeal and intelligence
The Times
Beautifully written and filled with fascinating, if thoroughly disturbing, insights into ISIS's cruel mentality and the physical and mental hardships suffered by desperate homeless refuges, this is possibly the most exciting thriller you'll read this summer
Irish Independent
A worthy addition to Porter's impressive canon of post-Cold War spy thrillers
Mail on Sunday
This epic novel of spies and migrants should be up there for the year's thriller awards ... remarkable ... his best book yet. Full of poignant scenes and mesmeric action sequences
Sunday Times
A brilliant novel for our times that I could not put down
Peter Frankopan, Spectator Books of the Year

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