The Enigma Girl

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 *

Henry Porter was a newspaper columnist for the Observer and former London editor of Vanity Fair. He has written several acclaimed and bestselling thrillers, including Brandenburg, which won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, A Spy’s Life and Empire State, both nominated for the same award. He is also the author of the Paul Samson spy thrillers: Firefly, which won the 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize; White Hot Silence and The Old Enemy. Henry Porter is frequently described as the heir to John le Carre. He lives in Paddington, London.

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