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Paul Samson is living in London and picking up some extra work for a private security company when he is almost killed by a thuggish assassin while tailing a mysterious and gifted young employee of a powerful environmental NGO. The murder of legendary spy Robert Harland, the poisoning of billionaire philanthropist Denis Hisami with a neurotoxin in the United States House of Representatives, and a second attempt on Samson's own life send him on the run to Estonia to figure out who is trying to kill him, and why. Anastasia leaves her comatose husband Denis in the US to join Samson in Estonia and help him get to the bottom of things. Soon it becomes clear that Denis and Harland were running an investigation into a spectral former Stasi agent and her sprawling network of assets across industry and government in the US and the UK when they were attacked. Samson and Anastasia must tap into their research and expose the spymaster before any more people are killed or agencies compromised. An astonishing and timely thriller examining the penetration of Russian assets into all levels of western life, The Old Enemy is a complex, breathtaking race against time from one of our most accomplished thriller writers, (Financial Times).

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Henry Porter is a novelist and political columnist for the Observer newspaper in London. Since 2005 he has been chronicling the attack on liberty and rights in Britain and has written some ninety columns on the subject. Porter has written six novels, including A Spy's Life and Empire State. He is also the author of the children's book The Master of the Fallen Chairs. In 2005 Porter won the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for best thriller with Brandenburg, a story set against the backdrop of the fall of the Berlin Wall. He is also the UK editor of the American magazine Vanity Fair. He lives in London. Matt Addis made his West End debut in Boeing-Boeing and toured internationally with Stones in His Pockets and When Harry Met Sally. His television credits include W1A, Queen Victoria's Men, Rose, Pobol y Cwm, and The British. Matt is a familiar voice to radio drama fans; his recent plays include The Complete George Smiley dramas, The Lady in the Van, and Pythonesque. He has narrated a number of chart-topping audiobooks, including Michael Innes's celebrated Inspector Appleby mysteries and Alexander Cordell's Mortymer trilogy.

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