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by Henry Porter (Author) "The passenger known as Cazuto arrived in the Immigration Hall of Terminal Three, Heathrow, in the early afternoon, carrying a raincoat and a small shoulder..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; New Ed edition (15 April 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752858920
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752858920
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,643 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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With Empire State Henry Porter continues his reinvention of the traditional British spy thriller. This is, in places, in the tradition of Buchan--high adventure in exotic places--and yet entirely lacks the sexism and racism of Buchan at his worst; Le Carre is an important influence, but the scepticism about British policy, let alone American, is even more radically sceptical than Le Carre at his most cynical.

The death of a presidential adviser, the murder of an airport worker at Heathrow and the mass killing of a band of immigrant workers trying to cross into Macedonia all prove part of the same complex intrigue. Harland, who dominated Porter's A Spy's Life gets involved less because of his prowess than because his back injuries have led him to a fashionable osteopath who proves complexly important.

In London, canny intelligence woman Isis deals with office intrigue, and with such technicalities as DNA samples from the insides of computer keyboards before haring off to islands in the Nile. What Porter is best at, and what we effectively get here, is just this--that sense of hard, clever legwork followed by bursts of violent action and desperate revelations. --Roz Kaveney --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



DAILY MAIL, 23 April

"Henry Porter excels at set-piece openings and his third spy thriller is no exception. A meticulously written, page-turning treat."
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5.0 out of 5 stars very interesting, 3 Sep 2003
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This review is from: Empire State (Hardcover)
At first none of this book makes sense. The head of the US National Security Agency is knocked off at Heathrow. A Pakistani employee at the airport and his family are then discovered also dead in their council house nearby. Sammy Ziade in New York is delivered two postcards showing the Empire State Building from someone called Laz Khan, one posted in Turkey and the other, Iran. A group of migrant workers, including Laz, en route from Afghanistan to the EU is killed in Macedonia. Laz escapes death, but is then tortured by the Man With No Name. It falls to our old friend and the hero of Mr Porter's previous explosive novel Robert Harland and his loyal sidekick Jennifer to sort it out on behalf of the UN. To the uniniated all this might seem a parody of earlier Cold War thrillers when the action moved around the world like a mad metronome. But in Mr Porter's more than able hands the cliche of what acdemics on thriller writing have dismissed as "hectic scene shifting "becomes one of those must-read books. Some of the characters who we meet early on never appear again and their role remains unclear but generally everything falls into place. We are plunged headlong, feet first, into a brutal world where no one can be trusted and where no one has any mercy. Only Harland has any sense of decency and standing up for what is right, as opposed to what is expedient. As in his earlier novels Mr Porter has captured the flavour of the world behind the headlines.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars chilling, 26 Sep 2003
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This review is from: Empire State (Hardcover)
Having spent a week in New York I was chilled to the core by this book. For all the apparent way New Yorkers have recovered from the cataclysm of 9/11 this recovery is only skin deep. The traffic snarls, people rush hither and thither and the fast food outlets - scrumy - are packed. And yet as Mr Porter points out with such tautness all is not as it seems. For here in New York lurks menace. The book moves around the globe at a dizzying pace. Unlike some readers I was not all confused by this. Mr Porter's takes us with him as the hero Hartland and the mysterious Janice grapple with the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists. Make no mistake these people are enemies of their own people as well as of the West. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. They eat pork, smoke, drink and use women for their own ends and all the while protest they are truly holy. Mr Porter casts no judgement and poses as the dumb narrator. It is obvious to me he knows more about the secret world than he lets on. And that is why this is a must read.
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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars better than higgins!, 31 Aug 2003
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the local bookshop already had this book in stock a few days before publication officially and i took the chance to buy it and settled down in my garden to read it on the last weekend of summer. i read all day and was so engrossed rigged up a light and got a blanket to keep me warm such was the power of mr porter's plot and characters. my hero until now has been the immortal jack higgins and i never thought id find an author to match him. mr porter does. from london to new york to berlin to the wastelands of turkey and thence into the mysterious middle east of islamic fundamentalism mr porter's heroine harland and his loyal aide show that in this mysterious world after thetragedy of the world trade centre nothing can be taken for granted as the west fights to maintain its liberties and keep its head above water. harland is no super hero and this echoes jack higgins who eschews such heroes and prefers to write about brave but flawed people. such is harland. facing him are the religious fanatics and the neer do wells of Western secret inteligence. i do not want to give away the plot and spoil it for readers. i say buy the book and be amazed.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Really quite poor
This is one of the more dreary and uninteresting books I have read. The story and plot could have been good enough, if it were not for the convoluted manner in which this story is... Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2007 by Booke23

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good
This book is not as good as the author's earlier book, 'A Spy's Life' and his latest, brilliant effort, 'Brandenburg', but it's still pretty readable. Read more
Published on 29 Dec 2006 by Sophie Masson

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good and not at all boring
I was surprised to see some people considered this book dull. I actually found it be the best-written and most believable of his books (I have not yet read Brandenberg). Read more
Published on 4 Mar 2006

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Poor
This book was very dissapointing. The story meanders along with very little to get excited about then builds towards what seems to be an action packed finish only to abruptly end... Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2004 by Chris Short

3.0 out of 5 stars Well below par!!!
I've read all his other books and i thought this to be a pretty stupidstory. It's as though he wrote it in a couple of weeks, the characters didhave depth but it was obvious that... Read more
Published on 25 April 2004 by Kj Illman

5.0 out of 5 stars thrilling
Unlike some critics notably in America I was not disappointed by Mr Porter's third novel. Agreed, in contrast to his first two books that explored with such aplomb war crimes in... Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars strong sense of realism but dull dreary and slow
The President's special envoy is assassinated while visiting London for an important meeting. It falls on the shoulders of the British Secret Service to get to the bottom of the... Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2004 by Larry Gandle

5.0 out of 5 stars like the early mcnab
This is a smashing read which reminds me of the early Andy McNab. Sure, unlike McNab Porter has not served in the Special Forces and isn't too good on weapons systems and hand to... Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2004

3.0 out of 5 stars No, I am sorry.....
..but this one just isn't up to the same standard as the past Porters. Substituting research-heavy prose and over-elaborate plotting for the slick pace and life-like narrative... Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2004 by Barton Keyes

3.0 out of 5 stars Confusing - not great but not rubbish either
This is the first book by Henry Porter that I've read. I selected it on impulse, based upon favourable reviews in the Press. Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2003 by Keith Appleyard

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