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A Spy's Life

By Henry Porter

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| Paperback | 9780752848068

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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 craContinue

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 taut new thriller about international espionage . . . Deftly orchestrating a byzantine plot and a multinational cast of characters, Porter creates a chilling global masquerade in which no one is who he (or she) pretends to be' VANITY FAIR

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  • The secret agent

    A Spy's Life Henry Porter 402pp, Orion, £12.99 It is often said that the fall of the Berlin Wall has left writers of spy thrillers without a territory. In fact, this seems almost the opposite of the truth. Once, the British spy novel was written by g ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Cherchez la femme

    Henry Porter has proved that the espionage novel has successfully emerged from the shadows of the Cold War. With the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic and the growing likelihood that the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague will start frying the b ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 480 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0752848062
  • ISBN-13: 9780752848068
  • Publisher: Orion mass market paperback
  • Pub date: Feb 07, 2002
  • Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
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