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The Descendants of John Porter, of Windsor, Conn., in the Line of His Great, Great Grandson, Col. Joshua Porter, M.D., of Salisbury, Litchfield County, Conn., With Some Account of the Families Into Which They Married .. (Hardcover)
Henry Porter B. 1822 Andrews, Peter Porter 1835- Wiggins
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One of France's premier scholars of Elizabethan literature
investigates the curious case of Henry Porter, his idiosyncratic
genius, and his most fascinating play.
A chilling police surveillance thriller from 'one of the masters of
the genre' Sunday Telegraph At the funeral the bells of the church
were rung open rather than half-muffled, as is usual for the dead.
Kate Lockhart has come, along with corporate leaders, ministers and
intelligence chiefs, to a beautiful town in the Welsh Marches to
mourn her soul mate, David Eyam, the brightest government servant
of his generation. All that remains of Eyam are the burnt fragments
of a man killed far from home in a horrific explosion. Eyam has
left a devastating legacy which certain people at the funeral are
desperate to suppress - but Kate Lockhart is equal to Eyam's
legacy. She becomes the focus of the state's paranoiac power and
leads the local resistance to it, directed from beyond the grave by
Eyam. And the state is no match for the genius of the dead... An
incredibly prescient thriller set in the aftermath of the Snowden
news story from the bestselling author of Brandenburg.
'A timeless ripping espionage yarn' 'An up-to-the-minute political
novel' 'Characters who become richer with every appearance' Sunday
Times Thriller of the Month Heart-stopping international spy
thriller from 'An espionage master' (Charles Cumming) starring
ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson for fans of Mick Herron, Lee Child and
John le Carre Ex-MI6 officer Paul Samson has been tasked with
secretly guarding a gifted young woman, Zoe Freemantle. He is just
beginning to tire of the job when he is attacked in the street by a
freakish looking knifeman. It's clear the target is on his back not
hers. What he doesn't know is who put it there. At that moment, his
mentor, the MI6 legend Robert Harland lies dead on a remote stretch
of the Baltic coastline. Who needed to end the old spy's life when
he was, in any case, dying from a terminal illness? And what or who
is Berlin Blue, the name scratched in the sketchbook beside his
body? A few hours later, Samson watches footage from the US
Congress where billionaire philanthropist Denis Hisami is poisoned
with a nerve agent while testifying - an attack that is as
spectacular as it is lethal, but spares Anastasia Hisami, the love
of Samson's life. Two things become clear. One, it was a big
mistake to lose the mysterious Zoe Freemantle. And two, Robert
Harland is making a final play from beyond the grave.
'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.
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